Linda --

Just FYI about that saliva article: Rosie Mestel was a medical writer for the Los Angeles Times (she's now the deputy health/science editor), and that article was published in the LAT on Jan. 21, 2002.

So yes, there have been quite a few advancements in the intervening years!

(Brian: you might want to put a date on that article, plus give credit to the LAT.)

Leslie

April 2006: Husband dx by dentist with leukoplakia on tongue. Oral surgeon's biopsy 4/28/06: Moderate dysplasia; pathology report warned of possible "skip effect." ENT's excisional biopsy (got it all) 5/31/06: SCC in situ/small bit superficially invasive. Early detection saves lives.