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European Head and Neck Cancer Prevention Week is underway. How to avoid the disease?

MedExpress Team

Medexpress

Published Sept. 18, 2024 11:05

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Smoking marijuana has also joined the risk factors for neck and head cancers, experts from the University Clinical Center in Gdansk point out. However, it turns out that even a person who never smokes and does not abuse alcohol can get sick. The culprit is the human papilloma virus, or HPV.

- Prevention should take place every day, all year round. We talk about prevention in the context of early detection and identification of health problems that we tend to underestimate, such as hoarseness. Prevention avoids problems whose treatment requires radical measures and can be turned into small interventions that allow us to function normally," stresses Tomasz Stefaniak, MD, medical director of UCK.

Head and neck cancer is the fifth most common malignancy and the eighth most common cause of death from malignant tumors in Europe. Although it is considered a preventable disease, ...

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