With every six-month check-up, Dr. Edward Dooley, dentist in Wall Township, screens his patients  for oral cancer. Why does he do this?  The Oral Cancer Foundation documents almost 50,000 new cases of oral and pharyngeal (throat) cancer in the US each year. Unnoticed and untreated, the five-year survival rate is low. However, with early detection and screening in Wall Township,  oral cancer cure rates increase dramatically.

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