Guest speaker announced

Simon,  who is a consultant oral and maxillofacial surgeon at Aintree University Hospital and professor at the Evidence-based Practice Research Centre, Edge Hill University, will be joined at the event by leading figures from the world of dentistry, MPs and people who have survived mouth cancer and will be sharing their stories. The reception will be hosted by Parliamentary sponsor the Rt. Hon. Sir Paul Beresford MP, himself a dentist, and will also include speeches from the Foundation's chief executive  Nigel Carter and president John Siebert.

Simon will be talking about mouth cancer, the current treatment and advances and also the work being done around patients’ quality of life and experiences.

Mouth Cancer Action Month takes place throughout November under the strapline ‘If in doubt, get checked out’.  The campaign aims to educate people about the main risk factors of mouth cancer, with tobacco use and drinking alcohol to excess still being the main causes of the disease. Poor diet, the human papilloma virus (HPV) transmitted via oral sex and forms of smokeless tobacco are also risk factors.