Andrew Bower: The fight against oral cancer

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To coincide with November's Mouth Cancer Action Month, Unum's managing director explores four ways that employees can combat 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...

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