Attainment of high risk factors and site distribution of oral Squamous cell carcinoma in young populations

There are many reports talking about rising incidence of oral cancer from many parts of the world, this incidence has gone up reasonably. It is known that oral cancer increases with person’s age, previous studies have demonstrated an increasing incidence of tongue cancer and in the mouth of young males. Several studies by many authors also suggested that 4 to 6% of oral cancers occur at ages younger than 40 years. The studies provided evidence about risk factors for oral cancer and patients who have never smoked or consumed alcohol which are known as risk factors in older population with too short duration for malignancy transformation to occur. There is a multifactorial risks for this disease in young population including occupational, familial risk, immune deficits as well viral infections. Conflicting evidence has also been reported on the sex distribution and outcome compared with older patients. Therefore further more researches are required to understand demography involvement of the disease, high risk factors about this disease, current innovative diagnostic modalities and its prognostic markers.