A person dies every 5 hours from mouth cancer.
More people die of mouth cancer than from ovarian and testicular cancer combined.
I have often wondered why more people don’t know about oral cancer. Maybe with high profile cases like Michael Douglas the tide will now turn.
I was fortunate to be at the launch mouth cancer action month yesterday at the Houses of Parliament, this was a fantastic event organised by the British Dental Health Foundation.
Let’s all get behind this campaign and work towards raising awareness of the disease itself and that as dentists we are a vital link in the early detection and diagnosis and successful treatment.
Finally I would like to thank Amanda Oakley from the BDHF http://www.dentalhealth.org.uk/
and John Barry and Kevin Coyle from The Dental Plan http://thedentalplan.biz/ who invited me to join them.
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