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Blue Wednesday – 16th November 2022 Mouth Cancer Action Month

 Mouth Cancer Action Month

The number of new cases of mouth cancer is on the increase, and in the UK has increased by over half in the last decade alone. Fatality rates are also on the increase with more than 2,300 people in the UK dying from mouth cancer every year. Many of these deaths could be prevented if the cancer was diagnosed early enough. As it is, people with mouth cancer are more likely to die than those having cervical cancer or melanoma skin cancer and yet far fewer people are aware of the signs to look out for.  If mouth cancer is spotted early, the chances of a complete cure are good. 

Mouth Cancer Action Month is a charity run by the Oral Health Foundation. Taking place throughout November, the campaign aims to raise the awareness of mouth cancer and shares the important message of being “mouthaware”. Blue Wednesday takes place on 16th November and focuses on the importance of encouraging self-checks with the simple message: A self-check for mouth cancer takes 45 seconds and can save your life.

https://www.dentalhealth.org/mouthcancer / https://www.dentalhealth.org/bluewednesday

RELATED LIBRARY RESOURCES

For anyone studying mouth and oropharyngeal cancers, those supporting patients already diagnosed or for those looking to raise knowledge and awareness of oral cancer, the Health Libraries both at the Royal Stoke and County Hospitals offer numerous resources related to the subject. In the lists below you’ll find a variety of items. To locate these items, simply go to our online catalogue or ask at the counter.

This document covers the following resources – books, journals, journal articles and patient information.

BOOKS

JOURNALS

  • Oral Oncology (Online), Elsevier Ltd. (Available as a Keele and NHS e-journal from 1997 onwards)
  • Cancers of the Head and Neck, Biomed Central. (Available as a Keele and NHS e-journal 2016 to 2020)
  • Translational Research in Oral Oncology, Sage Publications. (Available as a Keele and NHS e-journal 2016 to 2020)
  • Oral Surgery, Oral Medicine, Oral Pathology and Oral Radiology, Elsevier Ltd (Available as a Keele and NHS e-journal 2012 onwards)
  • British Dental Journal, Nature Publishing. (Available as a Keele and NHS e-journal 2015 onwards)

Access more journals via our Journals webpage: http://www.keele.ac.uk/healthlibrary/find/journals/

JOURNAL ARTICLES

  • Balachander, Kannan. et al., “Advances in oral cancer early diagnosis and treatment strategies with liquid biopsy-based approaches”, Oral oncology, 2022, Vol.134, p.106108-106108. DOI: 10.1016/j.oraloncology.2022.106108. [Available via Keele and NHS e-journals]
  • Speight, Paul M. et al., “Screening for oral cancer—a perspective from the Global Oral Cancer Forum”, Oral surgery, oral medicine, oral pathology and oral radiology, 2016, Vol.123 (6), p.680-687. doi: 10.1016/j.oooo.2016.08.021. [Available via Keele and NHS e-journals]
  • Contrera, Kevin J, et al., “Outcomes for recurrent oral cavity squamous cell carcinoma”, Oral oncology, 2022, Vol.134, p.106127-106127. DOI: 10.1016/j.oraloncology.2022.106127. [Available via Keele and NHS e-journals]
  • Giraldi, Luca, et al., “Infection with Human Papilloma Virus (HPV) and risk of subsites within the oral cancer”, Cancer epidemiology, 2021, Vol.75, p.102020-102020. DOI: 10.1016/j.canep.2021.102020. [Available via Keele and NHS e-journals]
  • Vanshika, Shahi, et al., “Incidence of HPV and EBV in oral cancer and their clinico-pathological correlation– a pilot study of 108 cases”, Journal of oral biology and craniofacial research (Amsterdam), 2021, Vol.11 (2), p.180-184. DOI: 10.1016/j.jobcr.2021.01.007. [Available via Keele and NHS e-journals]

PATIENT INFORMATION / PATIENT ADVICE:

KnowledgeShare CURRENT AWARENESS:

KnowledgeShare Evidence Updates is a personalised current awareness service which sends, straight to your email inbox, new evidence on topics tailored to your requirements and collated by Health Librarians.

For more information, or to register for KnowledgeShare please go to https://www.keele.ac.uk/healthlibrary/find/currentawareness/

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