2. Ear pain

You experience ear pain when there’s an active infection, but one of the things cancer does to your body is giving you a constant earache. You might not see any signs of infection, and the weird thing is that there might not be a problem with your ear at all.

Some doctors say that experiencing this kind of pain for multiple days or even weeks might actually be a sign of referred otalgia. That means some sort of pain goes to your ear from nerves that are located in your neck and head. There are many health issues that could make the pain radiate, and oral cancer is one of them.

If you’re an oral cancer victim and the tumor is still in its early stages, you might experience slight symptoms, and you might not know what they mean, but experts said that sometimes people who experience ear pain without having any other symptoms for weeks or months turn out to have oral cancer.

On the other hand, it could also be a sign of later-stage mouth cancer, and the symptoms could interfere with the other nerves in your system. The things cancer does to your body are never good, so take care of yourself!