Tongue cancer causes diagnosis and treatment
Introduction
The
tongue is a muscular structure its surface covered by nonkeratinizing
squamous epithelium the tongue has two parts anterior part which include
anterior two third of the tongue such as both sides of the tongue and
its tip its called oral part or oral tongue which appear when you
protruded your tongue outside, cancers occur in this part are called
mouth or oral cancers and the second part is the posterior part or base
of the tongue which is related to the pharynx and cancers occur in this
part are called oropharyngeal cancers
The
tongue is composed of eight muscles four intrinsic and four extrinsic
muscles and is separated at the midline by the median fibrous lingual
septum
What are the causes of cancer tongue
There are many risk factors which may predisposing for tongue cancer these factors such as