Free tests for cancer that kills 2 every week

MORE than 700 dentists are joining dental schools in Cork and Dublin next Wednesday to offer free painless tests for mouth cancer, a disease that is killing two Irish people every week.

Free tests for cancer that kills 2 every week

With over 300 cases of mouth cancer detected in Ireland each year, it now kills more Irish people than cervical cancer or skin melanoma.

A leading mouth cancer expert said the incident was increasing in younger people and it was unclear why this was happening.

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