From the Oral Cancer Foundation:
"Close to 43,250 Americans will be diagnosed with oral or pharyngeal cancer this year. It will cause over 8,000 deaths, killing roughly 1 person per hour, 24 hours per day. Of those 43,250 newly diagnosed individuals, only slightly more than half will be alive in 5 years. (Approximately 57%) This is a number which has not significantly improved in decades."
April is Oral Cancer Awareness Month. Check out these resources:
Go to: https://oralcancer.org/dental/ for more information from the Oral Cancer Foundation and how you can get involved.
Resource Articles:
The Challenge of Early Oral Cancer Detection and the Promise of Salivary Diagnostics
Inside Dentistry, February 2015
Using Adjunctive Devices for Oral Cancer Screening
Inside Dentistry, April 2014
https://www.dentalaegis.com/id/2014/04/using-adjunctive-devices-for-oral-cancer-screening
Roundtable: Should Dental Practitioners Perform a Cancer Exam on Every Patient?
Inside Dentistry, February 2014
Advancing Wellness in the Dental Office Through Use of Screening and Diagnostic Technology (Continuing Education)
Compendium, November/December 2013
https://cced.cdeworld.com/courses/4724
Tissue Fluorescence for Early Oral Cancer Detection
Inside Dentistry, September 2013
https://www.dentalaegis.com/id/2013/09/tissue-fluoresence-for-early-oral-cancer-detection
Making Oral Cancer Screening the Standard of Care
Inside Dental Assisting, March/April 2013
https://www.dentalaegis.com/ida/2013/04/making-oral-cancer-screening-the-standard-of-care
Head and Neck Skin Cancer: Dentists’ Responsibility in Early Detection
Compendium, March 2013
Dentistry’s Proactive Role in Preventing Disease
Compendium, January 2013
https://www.dentalaegis.com/cced/2013/01/dentistrys-proactive-role-in-preventing-disease
Potentially Malignant Lesions of the Oral Cavity
Compendium Supplement, September 2011
https://www.dentalaegis.com/special-issues/2011/09/potentially-malignant-lesions-of-the-oral-cavity
Oral Diagnosis in the General Practice
Compendium Supplement, September 2011
https://www.dentalaegis.com/special-issues/2011/09/oral-diagnosis-in-the-general-practice
Oral Cancer Detection Equipment
Inside Dentistry, July/August 2011
https://www.dentalaegis.com/id/2011/08/2011-technology-update-oral-cancer-detection-equipment
Oral Cancer Screening
Inside Dentistry, March 2010
https://www.dentalaegis.com/id/2010/03/oral-cancer-screening
Changes in the Demographics of Oral Cancer
Inside Dentistry, July/August 2009
https://www.dentalaegis.com/id/2009/08/changes-in-the-demographics-of-oral-cancer
Roundtable: how the revelatory information regarding the numbers and hypothesized mechanisms of oropharyngeal cancer caused by human papillomavirus has changed the “face of oral cancer
Inside Dentistry, April 2009
A General Practitioner’s Perspectives on Oral Cancer Diagnosis and Management
Inside Dentistry, February 2008
Oral Cancer Screening: a Paradigm Shift for the General Practitioner
Inside Dentistry, January 2008
Oral Cancer—What to Look For
Inside Dentistry, March 2007
https://www.dentalaegis.com/id/2007/03/diagnostics-oral-cancer-what-to-look-for
Oral Cancer Screening Aids
Inside Dentistry, November/December 2007
https://www.dentalaegis.com/id/2007/12/university-proceedings-oral-cancer-screening-aids
