Campaigners and supporters joined The Oral Health Foundation at the Houses of Parliament yesterday as they launched this year’s Mouth Cancer Action Month The room was filled with 130 campaigners and supporters. The attendees heard from a range of speakers reinforcing the need for greater recognition of mouth cancer and its signs and symptoms. The event’s parliamentary sponsor, Sir Paul Beresford MP used his introductory speech to talk about the vast improvements in prevention in recent times. He talked about combatting risk factors such as smoking and alcohol and through the introduction of the HPV vaccination. The OHF chief executive Dr Nigel Carter OBE spoke about the devastating rise of mouth cancer in the UK. ‘The sad fact is that the number of mouth cancer cases continues
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