Lip Cancer Therapy

Lip cancer therapy is a method of tackling cancer of lips and avoiding lip cancer recurrence. It is also useful to limit cancerous infection to as lower lip cancer stages as possible and avoid their metastasis. Therapy for lip cancer is given in a manner suitable to address physical and mental constraints of a victim. Main aim of undergoing therapy is not just controlling tumors but controlling them without causing much impact on victim's body. Thus, apt form of therapy for lip cancer should be undergone in order to ensure safe recovery.

Why Lip Cancer Therapy?

Infection in lips can be both cancerous and non-cancerous. Non-cancerous infection is generally a low-intensity cell abnormality and can be easily controlled by general medical methods. Cancer experts need not be approached in such conditions unless the infection keeps recurring or causes further severe or irreparable damage to lips or other areas.

Another major reason to undergo therapy for lip cancer is to prevent secondary growth of tumors in other areas of body. Cancer can be either primary or secondary and chances of survival are different for both these types. Primary cancer, or the cancerous growth initiated firstly in lips and then spread to other areas, is easy to control in initial stages. Such cancer causes destruction once the tumors start to metastasize and spread to various regions. Primary cancer of lips can be a cause for secondary growth of tumors in some other areas of the victim's body. Same is the case with primary  cancers of other parts which reach lips as secondary form of tumors. Hence, controlling both primary and secondary growth of either lips or other regions is extremely important to treat the disorder efficiently.

Undergoing Lip Cancer Therapy

Lip cancer occurrence or recurrence is dependent on various factors. People above 40 years have high chances of lip cancer infection thus, making age an important aspect to be considered in therapy for the disease. Men are more likely to get infected by cancer of lips and record more number of lip-cancer deaths in comparison to females. Thus, gender of victim should also be considered while recommending a kind of lip cancer treatment.

People of black race have more chances of lip cancer infection in comparison to white ones. Family medical history is also a vital aspect to be given due consideration while planning a particular form of therapy. Considerable number of people with personal history of cancer are likely to suffer from  lip cancer recurrence in future. Hence, proper lip cancer diagnosis is extremely important to check status of cell-development process and recommend preventive or curative measures to a person accordingly.

Various Therapies for Lip Cancer

Radiotherapy is the most vital and stern form of therapy useful in advanced stages of lip cancer. It is given through tumor exposure to harmful radiations. Such radiations not only kill tumors and tumor-cells but also cause some damage to nearby tissues. Hence, it has a wide number of side-effects. Chemotherapy is useful to treat tumors by taking medically prescribed anti-cancer drugs with high chemical content. Cryosurgery is a useful way to eliminate tumors by passing them through liquid nitrogen. Surgery is the most basic way to treat tumors and is of various ways like local and wide local excision, laparoscopy, lymph node surgery, and plastic surgery(kind of re-constructive surgery).  

Lip cancer therapies can be given only when proper lip cancer diagnosis is done. Healthy diet and  strong immune system is the key to getting maximum possible benefits of therapies undergone. Medical supervision is extremely necessary for proper execution of therapy.