Reports across Europe and the US are emerging, mostly funded and released by reputable organizations, urging dentists and patients to be more proactive about oral cancer screenings. In the UK, for example, an organization called Cancer Research UK is at the forefront of a notable campaign geared at raising oral cancer awareness and encouraging dentists and patients to more frequently submit to oral cancer screenings to help stem the growing tide of the cancer pandemic worldwide. Oral cancer, much like any other cancer, is far more treatable when detected in the early stages. Tragically, many cases are not diagnosed until late stages, and the high mortality rate of sufferers (estimated at 43% worldwide) reflects that prognosis.
