University of Miami

Rinse-and-spit test kit company gets $2.3M to develop an early oral cancer screening

Oral cancers don’t get a lot of mainstream attention because they aren’t among the deadliest cancers by sheer numbers. They do, however, carry a surprisingly high mortality rate: between 40 and 50 percent of people diagnosed with an oral cancer die within five years. The problem, according to the Oral Cancer Foundation, is that they’re […]