Pat Folsom, 54, knows the importance of preventive medicine. As a health care worker, she goes for scheduled checkups. So when she went in for a routine dental exam last year, she didn't expect more than a cleaning, maybe a filling. But her dentist found something more serious.
What are you doing on your summer vacation? If you are an innovative student from the University of Southern California, the answer might be going to India, providing innovative water treatment measures to mitigate the spread of waterborne diseases, or educating locals on how to prevent oral cancer.
Oral cancer
updated: Mon May 05 2008 10:19:00
Early diagnosis is the key to surviving head and neck cancer, as CNN's Judy Fortin reports in this Health Minute.
At 33, Lori Hamilton is young and healthy. So what is she doing at an oral, head and neck cancer screening at an Atlanta, Georgia, hospital?
Oral cancer is a disfiguring affliction that is difficult to detect in its early stages, which is how it manages to kill half the people it infects.
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