If you or someone you love is facing a mouth cancer diagnosis, MSK experts can help. If you want to learn about surgeries to ...

Mouth cancer can appear on the lips or anywhere in the mouth, including the tissues inside the cheeks, the tongue, and the gums. Mouth cancer may look like red, gray, or white patches of skin, thick ...

Red patches on the tongue are often ignored as minor irritation, but doctors warn that some of these patches may signal precancerous conditions such as erythroplakia. Persistent patches that do not ...

A lump inside the mouth can be alarming because it is easy to imagine the worst. In many cases, mouth bumps turn out to be harmless. They may come from irritation, a blocked salivary gland, swollen ...

Canker sores are inflamed spots in your mouth that cause pain and typically heal within a couple of weeks. Oral cancer may cause raised spots or patches in your mouth that worsen over time. Share on ...

Kaposi’s sarcoma can affect the cells lining mucous membranes, such as inside the mouth and tongue. It leads to lesions, or growths, on the skin of the tongue. Kaposi’s sarcoma is a vascular tumor, ...

Oropharyngeal cancer is a type of head and neck cancer. It affects the cells in the middle part of your throat, or what’s called the oropharynx. Early signs are easy to miss. “We can't see that area ...

Numbness in your mouth is usually nothing serious and may not require treatment. In severe cases, it may be a sign of an allergic reaction, stroke, or cancer. If numbness persists, you should seek ...

Imaging, specifically magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and computed tomography (CT), helped clinicians determine that a mass located on the chin of a newborn girl was a second oral cavity, according ...