Entries by Pierrel srl

Taking action


Taking action Andrew Osafo explains how dental professionals can help educate patients on mouth cancer and raise awareness of this life-changing disease. Mouth cancer is a serious and debilitating disease that devastates lives and prematurely ends lives. It is the eighth most common cancer in the United Kingdom and accounts for 3% of all new cases,...

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...