Hundreds of millions of people worldwide are addicted to a tropical palm-tree seed that provides a caffeine-like buzz—yet many users don’t know it puts them at grave risk for cancer. Oral cancers ...

For many years, head and neck cancer in the Philippines has been strongly linked to smoking, alcohol consumption, and betel nut chewing. However, doctors are now seeing a new trend: younger patients ...

Up to a third of all oral cancer cases worldwide are linked to chewing, sucking and sniffing tobacco or betel nuts, a major study has found. According to research published in Lancet Oncology ...

Prostate cancer is more common in those who consume too much dairy products. Cancers of the mouth and throat are more common in Karachi among those who consume paan, gutka and betel nut ...