Helena Emich was a previous PhD student at the Blizard Institute, funded by Saving Faces. Here she answered questions about her project which looked at the mechanisms that allowed oral cancer to spread around the body.
Interim report for the BAOMS/FSRF-Saving Faces Joint Fellowship
Summary of Research
Oral cancer is the commonest type of head and neck cancer and remains a debilitating and devastating disease. Its incidence is growing in the UK and advances in the management of this disease have made little impact on the overall survival for the condition. The most adverse factor for survival in oral cancer is extracapsular spread (ECS). In this instance the disease spreads from the mouth to lymph nodes in the neck and subsequently spills out from these lymph nodes.
Biopsy tissue was collected from 110 patients with oral cancer at University Hospital Aintree in Liverpool, one of the largest head and neck cancer referral centres in the UK. This tissue was used to determine the important molecular events in the development of ECS. Clinical data from patient follow-up after surgery confirmed the dire consequences of ECS. The findings were comparable with a larger previous study in which less than one quarter of the patients with ECS survived after 5 years.
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Are you ready to face the Poppadom Challenge?
Restaurant owner Shah Ahmed came up with a truly novel way to support Saving Faces after his Mum was diagnosed with cancer.
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Are you ready to face the Popadom Challenge?
Restaurant owner Shah Ahmed came up with a truly novel way to support Saving Faces after his Mum was diagnosed with cancer.
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Feb
In 2010, Lynda French suffered a terrible car accident which left her skull split in two and part of her brain missing.
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The Association of Dental Practice Administrators Managers, ADAM for short, we will be supporting Facial Surgery Research Foundation – Saving Faces for the next 12 months and Saving Faces has been featured in two Newsletters.
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Our Support Group really came about by accident! I had a 14 hour operation to remove cancer from the bottom jaw of my mouth which involved taking away my bottom teeth, underneath of my tongue, jaw bone and lymph glands followed by 6 weeks of radiotherapy.
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If you have ever wanted to get involved in a 5km or 10km run, here is your chance. On Sunday 8th December at Victoria Park, London, around 3,000 ‘Santa’s’ are expected to take part, raising over £100,000! Saving Faces are looking for volunteers to take part and you can be part of this fantastic event with just a small registration fee (payable to Do it For Charity but paid in full to Saving Faces once the race is completed) and raising the suggested minimum sponsorship of £100.
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Calling all running afficionados… Saving Faces has a number of guaranteed spaces for the Bupa London 10,000 run on the 27th of May 2012.