Also, be sure to mention the Oral Cancer Foundation as a resource for reporters and editors, and give them the website address. When I suggested to the health policy reporter in our bureau (who used to cover homeland security) that he should take a look how the TSA restrictions on taking water on airplanes were affecting people with dry-mouth issues -- an idea I got from messages here -- he got in touch with Brian and got permission to post here. Several contacts he made on these boards ended up in his article, and their voices gave the issue far more immediacy and impact.

-- Leslie

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.