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Article: Oral cancer screening is effective in primary care.(ONCOLOGY)(Clinical report)
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- Internal Medicine News
- Article date:
- October 15, 2009
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ESTES PARK, COLO.--A brush biopsy kit is highly useful for doing oral cancer screening when patients balk at being cut in the mouth or a physician is uncomfortable doing cold-steel biopsies.
"This is a very effective tool you might want to have in your office. The sensitivity and specificity are both about 98%. It doesn't require local anesthesia. It's very simple to do, and an instruction sheet is included with each kit. The company faxes you the results in 3 days," John McDowell, D.D.S., said at a conference on internal medicine sponsored by the University of Colorado.
The OralCDx kits are marketed by OralCDx Laboratories Inc. They are available ...