Hi, I know I am new to this board and I would like to tell everyone how informing it is. Well I was scared that I may have mouth cancer because of years of smokeless tobacco use. I know that drinking and tobacco use increas risks but I have read many people's stories on here and they have developed mouth cancer and did not use these products.

I was curious as to what other factors could cause mouth and throat cancer.

I was also wondering what steps I could take to prevent mouth cancer.

Can vitamins help. I take a mulivitamin, vitamin C, and vitamin E.

THANKS

Hi, not the answer you would like but I think it is in the hands of him up there
It does not disrimiinate and often happens it seems to me to the most wonderful, Caring,considerate people I have ever had the pleause to meet :banghead:
Albiet in the wrong circumsatances I could not wish for a better group of people Vicki(blanch ), Pikeman, Dr J, Pauline, Shelly the list goes on.

Paul

Hello BRC777 and welcome to RDOC. I pray that you will have your concerns checked out by a professional. I also pray that your concerns are wrong. There is nothing anyone can do to PREVENT cancer. They say there are things that bring it to the surface, but I don't believe that anymore. There are too many of us who have never used tobacco or drank but yet we have oral cancer. So I don't think the medical field knows anymore what exactly causes this horrible disease. This is just my opinion. Vitamins cannot hurt. Everyone should take them. I have always taken such good care of my body esp. since I lost my moma to CANCER at a young age. Howecer I still have CANCER and have had since 1989, I have often wondered tho, Did those years of vitamins help me in the long run for my tired little body to fight this war....I think they had a GREAT deal to do with it...Best of luck to you. ALways Vicki Lynn

Hi Vicki Lynn, Thanks for the encouraging and delightful comments. I am sorry to hear about your loss and wish the best for you. I will keep you in my prayers.

Brian.

Brain, well thank you, that is what we all want and need now,, :alert: ,,a lot of prayer. .Amen to that..Vicki Lynn

I take more vitamins/minerals now than before my illness. In particular I use a multi vit, EsterC 1000mg a day and also Zinc sulphate with copper. I have sometimes used Echinacea and also Milk Thistle. Ester C is more expensive and damned hard tow swallow as it is so large apill, but is supposed to better absorbed than other Vit C types.

Before I was ill I ate about 10 fruit and veg a day loving a wide range of veg including some that are really good for you like fennel, red peppers, and asparagus to suggest a few. I still got cancer. I don't really eat meat now, but I did have hearty helpings before of meat. Maybe animals carry something that is chemically bad for us after all they are injected with just about every antibiotic going.

I also think some of us are programmed to get this. I've always had trouble with my throat and I kind of knew if ever I was going to get something really wrong it would be throaty or chesty - just a feeling.

Apart from that like many here I have used chemicals perhaps more carelessley than I should have doing DIY etc.

I have also read that mouthwashes with alcohol in them can create the wrong oral environment. I've read that absorption by the body of just ateaspoon of certain chemicals found in regular use stuff like shampoo and hair spray can knock the body out of kilter.

All in all I belive it is environmental factors combined with perhaps a faulty gene that suddenly makes the system pops so to speak.

The fact that many of us have had this diagnosis even though we did not smoke or drink excessively is no reason for you to continue chewing tobacco thinking well they got it anyway so I might as well enjoy myself. Believe me this has to date been a nasty experience. Give yourself every chance to avoid it by giving the habit up now.

The Doctors and the rad lab crew both said, when we see a guy like you, never smoking, healthy, none drinker to get this diease in the mouth, we loose all explaination with reason. Why I ask? I have always been in a great clean enviroment, never in an office, healthy foods, hiking, no history in family of diease, never ill, and 48 years old. I mentioned the energy people and fire healers in the mountain villages here, I'll write more about them later. I have an open mind, and I use all roads to understanding the unknown. I meet with three of these people, (one recommended by the General Hospital) all of them immedaitely ID'ed me in having a problem in my throat ( in June before any systoms emerged and I said nothing to them). I asked why, and all three said instantly: You have a problem communicating your feelings, and you hold things in your throat without expressing them'', hence your body has created this problem. Three different people, not knowing each other said this. All three in June said that the cancer was a warning sign, and would pass. This was a body to mind signal to correct this non communitive behavior.I have to reflect on that. These people were well grounded, gentle and one session was enough for me and them both. As I always thought that I hold in to much, dealing with expressing myself silently- it makes sense. As time marches, I will reflect on this. As what we DO with our minds is MORE important that what we eat and breathe. Someday we will know, but as of this summer I have been writing my own new and improved ''owners manual'' to my life- which was secondary before. Could cancer be random? Maybe, and maybe not . So I take the ''maybe it is'' position because I can make my life better with my mind. If I take the position that ''cancer is random'', then there can be no gain from my experaince and pain, other than anger, rage and self pity. The mind and body connect for many reasons, and each work together. Cancer is part of a process, a reaction. This study goes further back in history to eastern religions and ancient writting - how to live clean in the mind and body. Every nerve ending is there for a reason, and nobody can say dieases are random without reason. It is worth a think about, and further reflection. :thinking:

Who knows?

My husband is 34. He has never ever smoked. He played regular sport/exercise until about 3 years ago (every other day - he was VERY fit) and ate fruit/veg every day. He's been a vegetarian since he was 7. He has never been a big drinker.

Someone, somewhere, with a greater power than us just doesn't like him much!

spouse