 Patient Advocate (1000+ posts)
Joined: Mar 2003 Posts: 1,384 Likes: 1 | Hello Roy,
I think it would be relatively easy to impress the dental community to do more. We simply declare Oral Cancer Day and each one of us personally visits every dentist office we can get to. I'm sure that showing our scars, our missing "parts" or pictures of our dear departed victims, to any hygenist or dentist would have some effect. If necessary we leave behind copies of pictures to show to whiney patients whom are put out by the "inconvenience" of an oral cancer screening.
From there it moves on to training these professionals on how to recognize the symptoms when they are easily cured.
Mark, 21 Year survivor, SCC right tonsil, 3 nodes positive, one with extra-capsular spread. I never asked what stage (would have scared me anyway) Right side tonsillectomy, radical neck dissection right side, maximum radiation to both sides, no chemo, no PEG, age 40 when diagnosed.
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