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.

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.