What Are the Symptoms of Gum Cancer?
Gingival cancer is second or third only after tongue cancer. The proportion of gingival cancer in lip cancer and oral cancer has been decreasing year by year. Early tumors invaded the alveolar process and jawbone, and teeth became loose, displaced, and even lost. Locally accompanied by pain. Mainly surgical treatment. Undifferentiated cancer can be considered radiotherapy. Early-stage gum cancer can also be treated with hypothermia.
Basic Information
- English name
- carcinomaofgingiva
- Visiting department
- Stomatology
- Common locations
- Alveolar process and jaw
- Common causes
- Looseness, displacement, loss of teeth, pain and swelling
- Common symptoms
- no
Clinical manifestations of gum cancer
- 1. The lower gingiva is more than the upper gingival, and it grows slowly, and it is more ulcerative.
- 2. Infiltration of alveolar process and jaw bone to destroy bone can cause tooth looseness and pain.
- 3. It can cause difficulty in opening mouth when it develops backward to the molars and pharynx.
- 4. It can metastasize to cervical lymph nodes. Mandibular gingival cancer mostly metastasizes to the affected submandibular and subcondylar lymph nodes, and then to deep cervical lymph nodes. Maxillary gingival cancer metastases to the affected submandibular and deep cervical lymph nodes.
Gum cancer diagnosis
- Gingival cancer is not difficult to diagnose, and biopsy is easy to diagnose. Early gum cancer, especially when it is confined to the gingival margin or interdental papilla, is easy to be misdiagnosed as gingivitis or periodontitis; secondly, early, especially when the ulcer lesion of the diffuse gum edge is accompanied by pain, it can also be misdiagnosed as Gingival tuberculosis. Clinical diagnosis of the above diseases should be alert to the possibility of gum cancer. X-ray examination showed that the jawbone was "fan-shaped" and the edges were worm-shaped.
Differential diagnosis of gum cancer
- Advanced gingival cancer should be distinguished from primary maxillary sinus cancer and central (central) mandibular cancer because their treatments and prognosis are different.
- Maxillary sinus cancer: It is not easy to detect early, but symptoms such as nasal congestion, nosebleeds, and increased nasal secretions on one side may occur later. If it develops downwards, it can loosen and pain the upper teeth. If it progresses upwards, it can make the eyeballs protrude and sometimes numbness of the upper lips Feeling backwards can make opening difficult.
Gum Cancer Treatment
- Surgical treatment
- It is currently the most effective radical treatment method. It can obtain good results on cancers in any part of the oral and maxillofacial region. The affected side neck lymphadenectomy is often performed at the same time.
- 2. Radiation therapy
- It can be used as a comprehensive treatment before and after surgery, which can effectively improve the 5-year survival rate.
- 3. Chemotherapy
- Although it has a certain effect on gum cancer, it is not effective alone. It should be used as a comprehensive treatment method before and after surgery to improve the treatment effect. It can also be used as a palliative treatment method for advanced cancer. Pain and prolonged survival have some effect. Chemotherapy can be applied before or after surgery. Because of its serious side effects, it should be applied under close observation of blood signs under the guidance of a physician.
- 4. Immunotherapy
- As one of the comprehensive treatment methods, it has been proven to effectively improve the treatment effect, and it can be used in conjunction with before and after surgery.
Gum cancer prevention
- The prevention of oral cancer is to reduce external stimuli, actively treat precancerous lesions, and improve the body's disease resistance. At present, with the improvement of modern treatment technology, the treatment of oral cancer has achieved better results. Early detection and early treatment should be emphasized, and comprehensive treatment is the main treatment. Comprehensive and systematic treatment with other treatment methods based on surgical treatment is expected to receive good treatment results.