Wai Htet Aung, age 27, waits for his turn at a crowded betel quid stand in downtown Yangon. Customers have lined up by the table to place their orders. “It’s tasty,” he says.

Betel quid chewing is the reason for oral cancers in patients of Myanmar. Betel chewing is also linked to smoking and drinking, which are the risk factors of mouth cancer.

July 19 (UPI) --Researchers are developing a way for users to kick an addiction to betel quid -- a cheap stimulant that can lead to oral disease and cancer.By combining nicotine gum with an ...

Myanmar's struggle with cancers caused by betel quid is an illustration of how even in the poorest countries the biggest obstacles to treatment and care aren't necessarily just financial. Because ...

A total of 178 reports on betel were included in the study. The researchers discovered that betel quid chewing is claimed to produce feelings of well-being, sweating, salivation, increased alertness, ...

Chewing betel quid -- the fourth most popular psychoactive substance in the world after tobacco, alcohol and caffeine -- exposes its 600 million users to substances that act as direct carcinogens ...

Participants were asked about betel quid chewing, smoking, and alcohol. Of the 307 cancer patients who visited Toungoo Hospital that year, 67 (22%) had HNSCC and were included in the study.

In areas where the practise of betel quid chewing is widespread and the chewers also often smoke and drink alcohol, the relation between oral precancerous lesion and condition to the three habits ...

BARCELONA, SPAIN — Chewing betel quid (also known as areca nut or paan) is associated with significant increases in all-cause death, diabetes, cardiovascular disease, and a range of other ...

TAIPEI, TAIWAN — Men who chewed betel quid or smoked cigarettes before they became a parent, especially if they did so for many years, were more likely to have offspring who had early metabolic ...

He mixes lime paste, chopped tobacco, betel nuts and other ingredients before wrapping the mixture in a betel leaf, forming a product known as betel quid, an addictive stimulant widely used in ...

As World Cancer Day is being observed on Feb. 4, health authorities are warning of the dangers of betel quid chewing. It’s a risky but popular habit in many Asian countries. One of them is ...