The disease of Sigmund Freud: oral cancer or cocaine-induced lesion?

ConclusionsIt is possible that the lesion that progressively and very slowly eroded the splanchnocranial structures of Freud was not a bona-fide cancerous malignancy, but rather, the necrotizing effect of cocaine use that has been previously reported to be responsible for some massive facial destructive lesions.
Source: European Archives of Oto-Rhino-Laryngology - Category: ENT & OMF Source Type: research