Oral cancer screening: 5 minutes to save a life

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    sndarvekar
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    In today’s Lancet, Rengaswamy Sankaranarayanan and colleagues report the first solid evidence that periodic examination of the oral cavity can reduce mortality from oral cancer in high-risk individuals. These results come from the Kerala screening trial, a cluster randomised trial, designed to have 80% power to detect a 35% reduction in oral cancer mortality within 12 years of enrolment between the intervention and control group, through rounds of screening every 3 years. The investigators report that, 9 years after the start of screening, there was a significant 32% reduction in mortality in high-risk individuals in the intervention group (42% when only male tobacco/alcohol users are considered).

     

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     You are right Dr.Darvekar. Every dentist must constantly be on a lookout for lesions especially in tobacco chewers. I myself  have detected a few cases and referred them to the appropriate facilities.

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    veeren

     

     

     

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     It is the dentist most of the times who first comes across signs of oral cancer and can play a big role in reducing the morbidity and mortality. In fact early signs of diabetes and a host of other diseases can also be detected by the dentist than any other healthcare professional.

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