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Lip blisters and herpes. is this oral cancer?
5 doctors weighed in across 3 answers
Not what: You describe, and oral herpes is not a risk for oral cancer. Another virus, hpv is a risk for oropharyngeal cancer, and infre.Quently oral cancers. Don't smoke or quit i. Best advice to avoid oral cancer.
Answered 7/4/2015
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Need to be seen: Oral cancer does not present as blisters. More than likely it is a breakout of herpes virus. Do blisters come and go? Have they changed in size and location? Cancer does not present that way at all.
Answered 11/28/2017
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No: No. No relation. If you have persistent lip blisters, see oral surgeon.
Answered 7/4/2015
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