Oral cancers caused by chewing or sucking betel nuts are at epidemic proportions in several countries, including India and China. To find oral cancer early and when it is most treatable, researchers ...

Attention, chewers of betel nut with lime. The Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands has a new law regulating afok or bweesch — lime — that is mostly used in the Pacific islands for ...

In particular, Papua New Guinea was badly hit, with 84 per cent of oral cancer diagnoses linked to betel nuts, according to .

Studies show that chewing betel leaves with areca nut filling increases the chances ... intake can cause unnecessary weight ...