Oral cancer on the increase

Oral Cancer Awareness Month just ended without much notice. It is a disease that people should be aware of year-round.

According to the Oral Cancer Foundation (OCF), oral cancer is the largest group of those cancers which fall into the head and neck cancer category.

Approximately 42,000 people in the US will be newly diagnosed with oral cancer in 2013. This includes those cancers that occur in the mouth itself, in the very back of the mouth known as the oropharynx, and on the exterior lip of the mouth.

This is the fifth year in a row in which there has been an increase in the rate of occurrenc...