Posts Tagged ‘ oral cancer ’

Oral Cancer Screening and Detection

Any talk of ‘the big C’ can be stressful and worrisome, to say the least; oral cancer doesn’t get the coverage other forms of cancer despising having a higher mortality rate than breast and prostate cancer. In 2013, 4,100 new cases were diagnosed in Canada.[1] Thankfully, oral cancer can be successfully treated if it is […]

Oral cancer awareness month

April is National Oral Cancer Awareness Month!  Le mois d’avril c’est le mois national de la sensibilisation du cancer de la bouche! As oral and maxillofacial surgeons, we would like to help raise awareness and share some important facts about the 13th most common cancer in Canada: oral cancer. Did you know that there are 3400 new […]