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Does Prolonged Ulcer With B12 Deficiency Indicate Mouth Cancer?
hi doc i have query regarding an ulcer which i m having over two months now. somehow it's going away. i m very tensed doc. i also did vitamin b12 test.which is is very low. for this i have been taking b12 injections this is 4th week now. doc i m scared if it's mouth cancer.
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first of all there is no relation between vit B12 deficiency and oral cancers. You might have had vit B12 deficiency and oral ulcer co incidentally. Good that your oral ulcer is healing. If it doesnt heal or increasing in size you need to get it biopsied. But remember all oral ulcers are not cancers. we do biopsy to be on safer side. there are many causes of oral ulcers including the common aphthous ulcer to licken planus
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