Mouth Cancer Action Month

Organised by the British Dental Health Foundation, Mouth Cancer Action Month will try and reduce the amount of lives lost from the disease and make a difference by positively promoting the values of early detection and prevention.

The campaign will aim to get more mouth cancers diagnosed at an early stage by increasing education of the risk factors and signs and symptoms while encouraging everybody to discuss them with their dental professional.

Mouth cancer is one of the UK’s fastest increasing cancers, with cases up by almost 40 per cent in the last decade alone.  Being on the frontline in the fight against mouth cancer, your support and participation remains instrumental in helping us combat a disease which kills more people every year than testicular and cervical cancer combined.

Chief executive of the British Dental Health Foundation, Nigel Carter OBE, highlighted how the dental profession is integral to this year’s campaign: “Chances are that we know somebody who has been diagnosed with cancer at some point in their life, and we recognise the hurt and pain it can cause, physically and emotionally.