Oral Cancer: Page 29

Homebound elderly have poor oral health, want home-based care

By Rabia Mughal

Homebound elderly adults have poor oral health and are interested in home-based dental care, according to a new study. The authors recommended that medical professionals should partner with the dental community to develop programs for these adults.

March 23, 2015

Developer of oral cancer testing system motivated by parents' disease

By Donna Domino

They say necessity is the mother of invention. But for Matthew H.J. Kim, founder and CEO of Vigilant Biosciences, the motivation for developing the OncAlert oral cancer testing system was seeing what his parents went through with the disease.

March 23, 2015

DrBicuspid.com Oral Cancer & Diagnostics Insider

By Donna Domino

March 18, 2015

LED Dental gives $8K to support oral cancer research

By DrBicuspid.com staff writers

LED Dental announced that it is giving $8,000 to the University of British Columbia to support a research project titled "Prevention Strategies in Early Detection and Diagnosis of Oral Cancer in Vietnam."

March 17, 2015

Vigilant debuts OncAlert system at IDS, signs distribution deals

By DrBicuspid.com staff writers

Vigilant Biosciences is debuting its OncAlert oral cancer risk assessment system at this week's International Dental Show (IDS) in Cologne, Germany.

March 10, 2015

Study finds how T cells cause inflammation with oral candidiasis

By Donna Domino

Ohio dental researchers have found a method to study how T cells cause inflammation during oral candidiasis infections, according to a new study in the Journal of Visualized Experiments. The discovery can lead to new therapies or drugs that jump-start weakened or poorly functioning immune systems.

March 9, 2015

Vigilant raises $5.5M in funding

By DrBicuspid.com staff writers

Vigilant Biosciences has raised $5.5 million in Series B funding. The company intends to use the newly raised funds to get U.S. and European approval for its oral cancer device, the OncAlert oral cancer risk assessment system.

February 24, 2015

Researchers propose new staging model for HPV+ oropharyngeal cancer

By Donna Domino

Canadian researchers are proposing a new tumor-staging model for predicting outcomes and guiding treatments for patients with human papillomavirus (HPV)-related oropharyngeal cancer, according to a new study in the Journal of Clinical Oncology. Since HPV-related cancer differs significantly from smoking-related cancer, less-intensive treatment strategies may be more appropriate, the study found.

February 23, 2015

Tufts dental school to add oral medicine residency program

By DrBicuspid.com staff writers

Tufts University School of Dental Medicine will begin enrolling students in its new Advanced Education Program in Oral Medicine in July 2016.

February 22, 2015

NCI awards $1M grant for 1st heavy ion radiation center in U.S.

By DrBicuspid.com staff writers

The National Cancer Institute (NCI) has awarded the University of Texas Southwestern a $1 million planning grant to develop research proposals for the first heavy ion radiation therapy research center in the U.S.

February 17, 2015

New tracer could help HNSCC patients avoid surgery

By Wayne Forrest

With the help of a novel radiotracer, researchers were able to accurately identify sentinel lymph nodes in patients with head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (HNSCC), potentially reducing the number of patients who need to undergo selective neck dissection.

February 15, 2015

New research suggests possible cure for HPV+ oropharyngeal cancer

By Donna Domino

It may be possible for some patients with human papillomavirus-positive oropharyngeal cancer to be cured, even after the disease has spread to other organs, Canadian researchers reported today at the International Conference on Innovative Approaches in Head and Neck Oncology in Nice, France.

February 12, 2015

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