Oral cancer is deadly but can be cured if detected early. How can we guard against it?

Oral cancer is very prevalent in Asia. It is also common in Australia. But somehow oral cancer is seldom spoken about.

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Dr Elizabeth Fitriana Sari, is a lecturer in Oral Health at La Trobe University regional campus in Bendigo.  To mark World Cancer Day, she explained why the incidence of oral cancer is life-style related, and why those life-style factors are different in Australia and Indonesia.

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Smoking is a major factor in causing oral cancer in both Australia and Indonesia. Source: Image by ekosaint/Creative Commons.