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Cancer of the Lip.The growth may remain in this condition for months, and scarcely attract the attention of the patient, who rarely suspects the existence of any serious disease or seeks medical advice about it. At last, however, perhaps in consequence of some irritating ointment or application, the growth increases rapidly in size and becomes ulcerated. In a few months or even weeks the lip has become very thick, its surface is raw and covered with foul matter, and the edges of the ulcer are sharply cut and turned outward. In many cases the surface is covered with scabs of dried matter. If the disease proceed without treatment, a considerable part of the lip is destroyed ; the saliva dribbles from the corners of the mouth ; the glands at the angle of the jaw and under the tongue become enlarged ; the disease spreads so as to attack the inside of the mouth, as well as the skin around the lip; the teeth fall out and the individual dies of exhaustion. As to the cause of cancer upon the lip we have no definite infor mation. There are many reasons for supposing that a sore, which is at first simple and not cancerous, can be by constant irritation converted into a cancer. It is also true that cancers of the lip occur with especial frequency in men who smoke clay pipes, or whose avocation compels them to hold irritating articles between the lips. The most frequent subject of cancer of the lip is the Irish laborer, who smokes a clay pipe all day and evening. In such patients, it is often observed that the cancer of the lip corresponds exactly in position to the teeth between which the patient holds his pipe, since these are usually worn away by this article of luxury. Yet it must be admitted that cancer occurs on the lips of individuals who do not use pipes, and that in many cases no source of irritation can be discovered. Yet cancers occur also in other parts of the body which are exposed to irritation, and we cannot doubt that, however they may originate, cancers are at least aggravated and developed by irritating agents. Treatment.-The only cure for a cancer consists in early removal. This fact has been so well established that it seems astonishing that so many individuals can be persuaded, even by the dread of the knife, to waste precious time in applying pastes, and in other fruitless efforts, out of which unscrupulous men make handsome incomes. No instance is recorded in which a genuine cancer - one which had been so pronounced by competent surgeons - has been healed by any means whatsoever. This seems a sad fact for the many sufferers from the disease; but it is a fact, and it must be accepted as the inevitable. By deferring an operation until pastes, plasters and the like have been applied to the sore, the patient is simply losing valuable time, and perhaps throwing away his sole chance for life. For the danger to life lies not in the original cancer itself, but in the other cancers which subsequently grow in the internal organs of the body. A certain time elapses before these secondary cancers are formed ; just how long a time it takes we cannot say. Under such circumstances, the wise course is evidently to remove the original growth as early as possible, for if once thoroughly removed, there is but little danger of the formation of cancers subsequently. The lip is the most favorable, or rather the least dangerous, of all the localities of the body for the occurrence of a cancer; for the sore is so prominent as to attract the attention of the patient and of his friends at an early period of its growth ; and the lip is so formed that it affords the most favorable opportunity for the thorough removal of the tumor. The operation must, of course, be entrusted to the surgeon ; our object is merely to impress upon the patient the necessity for an operation, and the folly of wasting time by useless efforts to evade the unavoidable. But first, if you want to come back to this web site again, just add it to your bookmarks or favorites now! Then you'll find it easy! Also, please consider sharing our helpful website with your online friends.
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