The Oral Health Foundation has hailed the impact that this year’s Mouth Cancer Action Month campaign has had across all areas of the UK’s healthcare industry.

CEO of the Oral Health Foundation, Dr Nigel Carter OBE, praised the growing support for the campaign from healthcare teams including pharmacies, GP surgeries and the dental community, and thanked all participants for their efforts of raising awareness of the disease.

“If people can access the information that could save their life through their doctor or pharmacy then it gives them a better chance of catching it early,” he said. “At best people only visit their dental practice once every six months and in the times in between it can be very easy to overlook signs of mouth cancer and the disease progressing.

“This is why, during Mouth Cancer Action Month, we were delighted to see the incredibly strong support from across the healthcare industry and unprecedented amounts of information being distributed around the signs, symptoms and causes of mouth cancer.”

Dr Carter also commented on the rising prevalence of mouth cancer in the UK and the ever-increasing need to provide “education, support and awareness, particularly in high-risk groups and areas of low social economy.”