Every year, more than 2,000 people in the UK lose their life to mouth cancer (Cancer Research UK, 2014). As dental nurses at the forefront of the profession, we are asking for your help to get involved and make your patients, and the wider community, truly mouthaware.
Latest figures reveal 6,767 people will be diagnosed with mouth cancer this year in the UK alone. In fact, mouth cancer is one of the UK's fastest growing cancers, increasing by more than 45% in the last decade. This trend is set to continue, with forecasts predicting that incidences of mouth cancer will double by 2030 (Cancer Research UK, 2014).
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