Pain and symptoms control management often called as symptom management, palliative care and supportive care.

Surgery Treatment

Surgical treatment is the most common option for people with mouth cancer. It includes:

Cancer removal surgery

If the tumor is small then minor surgical excision is usually preferable to remove the tumor. The surgeons will usually remove a portion of healthy tissue around the tumor for screening purpose. This procedure is usually preferred as long as it is likely to result in a functionally satisfactory.

Radical surgery treatment

This procedure will be conducted if mouth cancer has spread into a part of the neck. Radical surgery treatments include:

• Mandibulectomy
  This procedure include removal of whole lower jaw or the whole mandible or part of it
• Glossectomy

This procedure include partial or complete removal of the tongue

• Radical neck dissection
• Maxillectomy
• CCPDMA also known as Moh's procedure
• And some other procedures depend on where the tumor spread

Removal lymph nodes procedure might also be required to be done by the surgeons for further analysis about the cancer.

Reconstruction surgery treatment

Reconstruction surgical procedure usually performed after the radical tumor removal surgery. It helps the patient to restore the patient's face appearance and his/her ability to talk and eat. Reconstruction procedures after the mouth cancer treatment include skin or graft, bone, and dental transplants.

Surgical solution for oral cancer will affect the patient appearance, and his/her ability to swallow, eat and speak. It also carries some risks like bleeding and infection.

Radiotherapy

Radiotherapy for mouth cancer usually preferred as the only primary treatment for people with early stage cancer. Other than that this procedure usually given in conjunction with surgery is it before or after the surgery. Radiotherapy will be given before surgery to shrink the cancer or to stop the progression of the cancer. Thus the removal surgery can be performed easily. It usually given after the surgery to prevent the remaining cells grows back. Sometimes radiotherapy also comes in combination with chemotherapy to enhance the effect of the therapy.

Radiotherapy for mouth cancer includes:

• External radiation

This procedure uses high-energy beams machine to create the radiation.

• Internal Radiation

Radioactive needles, seeds, or wires placed inside the mouth near the cancer.

Radiotherapy has side effects like irritation, fatigue, jaw stiffness, mouth sores, tooth decay, bleeding gums and mouth sore.

Chemotherapy

Chemotherapy for mouth cancer is often advisable as a combination for the radiotherapy but it can be given alone to relive the symptoms or to kill oral cancer that coming back. This procedure uses drugs to kill the tumors be it through an injection or taken as pills or liquid.