How do you get oral cancer?

Many ways: The known risk factors for oral cancer are tobacco use (whether cigarettes, cigars or smokeless tobacco), alcohol use, and infection with certain strains of human papilloma virus. Genetics may play a role in some people.

Many ways: The most common way is being or having been a smoker of tobacco chewer. Although sometime many cases appear on the tongue on people who never smoked. These usually have metastasized from other sites.

Many ways: The most common way is being or having been a smoker of tobacco chewer. Although sometime many cases appear on the tongue on people who never smoked. These usually have metastasized from other sites. The hpv has caused a great increase in oral cancer. The younger generation needs to be educated about the hpv and oral cancer. The vaccine hasn't been out there that long.

Several possibile: Oral sex, has become a major cause, due to the hpv virus. Hpv has been spreading oral cancer much more rapidly than in years past. Multiple sex partners has been shown to expand the incidence of probability exponentially. Heavy smoking, heavy drinking and an unhealthy lifestyle are also contributors.

A few: Smoking, alcohol, HPV, poor diet, poor nutrition.

Varies: The common squamous carcinomas of the oropharynx are most often caused by tobacco, with alcohol and perhaps viruses often contributing. Others such as the minor salivary gland cancers seem to just happen by dumb luck, random genetic damage.

Smoking, drinking: Oral cancer can be from excessive drinking and smoking, including smokeless tobacco, and excessive sun exposure (use sunscreen and lip balm). There is also a genetic component to oral cancer risk.