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Entries by Pierrel srl
Despite recent advances in oral cancer treatment, the survival rates of affected patients are still low and do not exceed 60% globally five years after diagnosis.
The benefits of early mouth cancer screening
The most recent UK statistics show that 11,449 new cases of head and neck cancer are diagnosed every year, with over 2,000 lives lost per year in the UK (www.mouthcancer.org; www.cancerresearch.org). This is more than lives lost in road traffic accidents, testicular cancer and cervical cancer combined (www.mouthcancer.org). Diagnoses of mouth cancer have risen...
Dental professionals role in early detection
Last November, I had the honour of attending the Swallows/Your Cancer Journey International Head and Neck Cancer Conference in Nottingham. The conference is organised by the founder and chairman of the Swallows Charity, Chris Curtis, a pharyngeal cancer survivor: he was diagnosed in 2011 with throat cancer, which had gone undetected by his dentist...