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		Mouth Cancer Referral Guidelines (PDF) Produced by Cancer Research UK in conjunction with specialists. Photos from Health Scotland and Glasgow Dental Hospital.
		Oral Cancer: A growing concern (PDF) Article by Dr Vinod K Joshi, founder of MCF published in Preventive Dentistry Volume 1 Issue 1 2006 Preventive dentistry doesn’t immediately conjure up an image of mouth cancer prevention, does it? But as dentists, our role is to prevent and treat oral disease. A qualified GDP can expect to see at least a couple of mouth cancer lesions during their practising lifetime. Obviously this is an average statistic affected by geographical location and social class of clientele, much like the statistics for caries. For both caries and mouth cancer, prevention of the disease is better than treatment, and early treatment results in less damage to the patient.
		Screening for oral cancer and pre-cancer in dental practice The CD-ROM is available free of charge to NHS practitioners in the UK, and counts for "general" CPD. If you work within the National Health Service in the England may order a copy free of charge from your local postgraduate deanery.
		"Screening reduces oral cancer mortality among tobacco/alcohol users: results from a randomised trial in Kerala, India" - Dr R. Sankaranarayanan See poster Quick Clinical Reference Chart for Visual Inspection of the Oral Cavity to Detect Precancerous Lesions and Invasive Cancer Download chart here.
		Neck Lumps - A diagnostic guide for general practitioners To download a copy of this brochure from The Sydney Head and Neck Cancer Institute, please click here (PDF 1.1Mb)
		Cancer 'missed 19 times' Thursday 11 May, 2000 News about oral cancer being misdiagnosed by different doctors on 19 separate occasions.
		Oral Cancer: Prevention and Detection A UK web site providing good information on Aetiology, Prevention, Examination and Clinical Presentation of Oral Cancer.
		A Management Strategy for Dental Practice (PDF) Realistic advice for dentists in primary care who now seek to adopt best practice in soft tissue screening. Oral cancer deaths will only be reduced if the disease is recognised earlier and treated sooner. Opportunistic screening can pay big dividends.
		Detecting Oral Cancer A US Guide for Dentists put together by collaboration between the National Institutes of Health, National Institute of Dental Research and Baylor College of Dentistry. Last updated 1996 but still useful.
		Screening for Oral Cancer Is there sufficient evidence to recommend for or against routine screening of asymptomatic persons for oral cancer by primary care clinicians? Other related links can be found here >>
		Oral Cancer - An Overview An important detailed review on oral cancer that is used by the NHS Clinical Outcomes Study Group on head and neck cancer.
		The Health Evidence Bulletins - Wales act as signposts to the best evidence for prevention of mouth cancers. Examining a broad range of evidence types and subject areas, where information from randomised controlled trials is available it is included. However, many health issues do not lend themselves easily to investigation, or have not yet been studied, by this method. In these cases, high quality evidence has been sought from observational and other studies.

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