The 2025 essential guide to mouth cancer
04 Oct 2025
Dental Care Professionals' Hub
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Learning Content
The incidence of mouth cancer in the UK continues to increase yearly with a doubling of cases in the last 20 years. In addition to prevention, this session will describe how detection of the tumour whist small and before spread to the lymph nodes in the neck can improve patient survival.
- To have a contemporary understanding of the clinical presentation, detection and management of mouth cancer-
- To be aware of the risk factors presently associated with mouth cancer-
- To be able to provide health style advice in the primary dental care setting to potentially reduce the development of oral malignancy.
Aims
Detection and prevention of cancer are healthcare priorities.
This session will provide information that will assist all members of the dental team with:
The clinical presentation of mouth cancer-
Contemporary knowledge of the risk factors for oral malignancy-
Provision of appropriate healthcare advice to improve detection and reduce the incidence of mouth cancer.
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