Andrew Bower: The fight against oral cancer

More than 8,300 people in the UK are diagnosed with mouth cancer each year[1], yet it's estimated that over the next decade almost half of people diagnosed with mouth cancer will die from it because of late detection[2]. David Arnold of the Oral Health Foundation, a charitable organisation that runs the Mouth Cancer Action Month awareness campaign throughout November each year, says that survival rates for mouth cancer have barely improved over the last 20-30 years, and this is because too many cases are simply caught too late. With more people dying each year from mouth cancer than t...