Men aged over 45 who smoke and drink to excess have a 'full house' of risk factors, but many of the 60,000 people in the UK likely to be diagnosed with mouth cancer in the next decade won't tick all those boxes. One in three people diagnosed are female, and poor diet is thought to play a part in up to half of cases.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original article at https://patient.info/news-and-features/how-to-spot-the-signs-of-mouth-cancer