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NIH Awards Set to Fight Oral and Related Cancers

Recent awards from the National Institutes of Health will be used to help researchers...

Oral Bacteria May be Sign of Pancreatic Cancer

An infectious oral bacterium may be a sign for pancreatic cancer. According to a...

Enhanced Diagnostic Test for Oral Dysplasia and Cancer (OralCDx2)

Suffern, N.Y. – September 13, 2012 – CDx Diagnostics announced that it is launching...

Bad Oral Hygiene Raises Cancer Risk

There’s more evidence that suggests poor oral hygiene increases the risk dying prematurely from...

Some Oral Bacteria May Cause Bowel Cancer

Maintaining solid oral hygiene could be a key to preventing bowel cancer. A research...

Number of Throat Cancer Cases Rising because of Increase in Oral Sex

The Human Papillomavirus is becoming more widespread because it is transmitted through oral sex....

The Dentist’s Role in Managing Oral Complications of Cancer Therapies

More than a million new cases of cancer are diagnosed in the United States...

Cancer Chemotherapy and Oral Care

By Jerome P. Rothstein, DDS, MHA   Hundreds of thousands of patients receive cancer...

Oral/Head and Neck Cancer

Oral and head and neck cancer (OHNC) is a term for a number of...

Oral Care for Patients Undergoing Cancer Therapy

More than 1,250,000 Americans are newly diagnosed with cancer every year. Approximately 500,000 of...