DENTAL experts last night called for more research into mouth cancer, which is killing as many people today as it did 30 years ago.
The number of overall cancer deaths in the UK fell 15 per cent over the same period.
Professor Saman Warnakulasuriya, chair in oral medicine at King’s College London, said: “We need research into why this is and clinical trials to find new anti-cancer medicines to combat the disease.”
Each year in the UK, more than 4,750 cases of mouth cancer are diagnosed, with the disease causing more than 1,700 deaths.
