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Oral Cancer Foundation Virtual Fundraiser 2020
A normal OCF “in-person” walk event in one city can raise 50k in sponsorships, registrations, and supporter donations of registered walk/run participants. What happens when it becomes a national effort, with the potential participation that [...]
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April is Oral Cancer Awareness Month
NEWPORT BEACH, Calif., April 2, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Every hour, 24-hours-a-day, 365-days-a-year, someone dies of oral or oropharyngeal cancer (cancer of the mouth and upper throat). Yet, if oral cancer is detected and treated early, [...]
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Oral Cancer Answers with Jo-Anne Jones RDH
The Oral Cancer Foundation has recorded another podcast which is now available for listening. This interview is with someone well known to many here on Facebook, and within the dental industry and RDH [...]
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Eddie Van Halen Family Reveal ‘Painful’ Cancer Secret
Source: Alternative Nation Date: October 9th, 2019 Author: Bruce Buchanan Eddie Van Halen‘s ex-brother-in-law David Bertinelli recently said that Ed ‘sounded good’ in a phone call a couple of weeks ago, and he has [...]
Transpyrénées Ride for Oral Cancer – Recap 2019
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Trans Pyrénées Ride Day 13
Video Trans Pyrénées Ride Day 13 from The Oral Cancer Foundation on Vimeo. Support The Riders
Trans Pyrénées Ride Day 12
Video Trans Pyrénées Ride Day 12 from The Oral Cancer Foundation on Vimeo. Support The Riders
Trans Pyrénées Ride Day 11
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Trans Pyrénées Ride Day 10
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Trans Pyrénées Ride Day 9
Video Trans Pyrénées Ride Day 9 from The Oral Cancer Foundation on Vimeo. Support The Riders
Trans Pyrénées Ride Day 8
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Trans Pyrénées Ride Day 7
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Trans Pyrénées Ride Day 6
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Trans Pyrénées Ride Day 5
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Trans Pyrénées Ride Day 4
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Trans Pyrénées Ride Day 3
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Trans Pyrénées Ride Day 2
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Trans Pyrénées Ride Day 1
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Oral Cancer Answers with Rebecca Bencal
Listen to oral cancer activist Rebecca Bencal. Learn what fueled her passion to speak about oral cancer and why early discovery is so important.
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Bringing Oral Cancer Awareness to the Boston Marathon
Rachel Layer is not your average person. In fact, she’s a little on the extraordinary side. But if you were to suggest this to her, she would deny it, insisting that it was actually her [...]
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CDC Webinar 2019
Perspectives on Oropharyngeal Cancer: Scientific Overview, Clinical Expertise, and Personal Experience Every year, over 33,000 men and women are diagnosed with cancer caused by HPV. While cervical cancer is the most well-known [...]
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Genomics and What’s New in the Treatment of Oral and Head and Neck Cancer (Podcast)
Learn more on Genomics and What’s New in the Treatment of Oral and Head and Neck Cancer. This podcast was produced by The Oral Cancer Foundations partner, CancerCare. Topics Covered Overview of the Treatment of [...]
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Yankee Dental Congress – Boston, MA
OCF Booth Number: 2135 Date: JANUARY 31 - FEBRUARY 2, 2019 The Yankee Dental Congress is New England’s largest meeting for professionals seeking the best dental continuing education, as well as dental products, services, and [...]
Chicago Dental Society (CDS) Midwinter Meeting – Chicago, IL
OCF Booth Number: 727 Date: February 21-23, 2019 For three full days, you can see and try out the latest and best new dental products and services that more than 700 exhibiting companies have [...]
CDA Presents the Art & Science of Dentistry – Anaheim, CA
OCF Booth Number: 1588 Date: May 16-18, 2019 Experience the nation’s premier dental convention next spring. Come learn new skills in practice management and clinical care while connecting with the best and brightest in dentistry.Whether [...]
American Dental Hygiene Association (ADHA) – Louisville, KY
OCF Booth Number: 115 Dates: June 21-23, 2019 ADHA's Annual Conference is the largest, most comprehensive and cost-effective event for dental hygienists in the U.S. ADHA’s Annual Conference is the only conference entirely focused on dental hygienists, [...]
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Shop on Amazon – Support Oral Cancer Research
Through Nov 2, AmazonSmile is donating 5% (ten times the usual amount) to Oral Cancer Foundation when you shop at smile.amazon.com/ch/33-0969026. #AmazonSmile #StartWithaSmile. Click the link - it's that simple 🙂 It doesn't cost you [...]
Giving Tuesday 2019
2019 will be my 20th year at the helm of The Oral Cancer Foundation. Looking back at those years, even with my intimate engagement with the foundation, the many patients that I have come to [...]
Oral Cancer Answers with Dr. Carole Fakhry, M.D., M.P.H.
Dr. Fakhry is a professor of otolaryngology, head and neck surgeon, and a multi peer reviewed published researcher in numerous high profile cancer journals, on staff at Johns Hopkins, and joins us to talk about [...]
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Introducing OCF Answers Podcast
Welcome to Oral Cancer Answers, a production of the Oral Cancer Foundation, where we discuss disease-related issues of interest to patients, survivors, advocates, and medical and dental professionals. Our guests are drawn from a large [...]
OCF Answers Podcast
Oral Cancer Answers, a production of the Oral Cancer Foundation, is where we discuss disease related issues of interest to patients, survivors, advocates, and medical and dental professionals. Our guests are drawn from a large [...]
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Eight-Time GRAMMY® Winner Ziggy Marley Partners with the Oral Cancer Foundation
The Oral Cancer Foundation has a new relationship with eight-time GRAMMY® winner, Emmy winner, humanitarian, singer, songwriter and producer, Ziggy Marley. Mr. Marley has generously offered to allow CharityBuzz to auction off three (3) VIP [...]
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April is Oral Cancer Awareness Month
Dental associations urge the public to get regular oral cancer screenings, and to self-check between examinations--early detection saves lives! NEWPORT BEACH, Calif., April 2, 2018 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Every hour, 24-hours-a-day, 365-days-a-year, someone dies of oral or [...]
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March OCF Newsletter 2018
The Oral Cancer Foundation is proud to announce the official launch of its North American campaign, "Check Your Mouth™". The initiative is built around an interactive website designed to help individuals learn to self-discover suspicious [...]
What does it take to make a difference?
** This is an editorial I wrote about 2005. So some of the numbers in it may be outdated. That does not mean they have changed for the better. I am reflecting on this today [...]
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Check Your Mouth™ – OCF Announces a New Program to Facilitate Early Self-Discovery
The Oral Cancer Foundation (OCF) has launched a new nationwide campaign aimed at the early discovery of oral cancers. Their “Check Your Mouth™” (www.checkyourmouth.org) initiative is built around an interactive website designed to help individuals [...]
Twenty years of survival post treatment, and the building of OCF
It was twenty years ago this weekend. We measure our lives in milestones of growth and landmarks of experience. Goals aspired to and milestones passed, that show our progress to a destination; be it physical, [...]
RDH Under One Roof – Grapevine, TX
OCF Booth number: 309 Dates: July 31 - August 2, 2019 RDH Under One Roof is a three-day action packed event offering quality dental hygiene education. Dental hygienists learn from leading speakers in the industry [...]
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Oral Cancer Foundation December Newsletter
Thank You! As 2017 comes to a close, we leave behind an exciting and fulfilling year at The Oral Cancer Foundation. After nearly 17 years of helping to better the lives of those [...]
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UFC’S Mac Danzig Throws a Powerful Punch to Help Knockout Oral Cancer
UFC stands for the Ultimate Fighting Championship. OCF is an acronym for the Oral Cancer Foundation. Initially, most individuals may not see a correlation between the two. They may even think that they are [...]
OCF Founder’s Holiday wish
Brian Hill, OCF Founder/Executive Director and Stage IV Oral Cancer Survivor My wish is that in December this year the Oral Cancer Foundation can count on your help to fund our continued activities in 2018. [...]
Marie Claire Publisher Nancy Berger and Auction House CharityBuzz Partner with the Oral Cancer Foundation
The Oral Cancer Foundation has a new relationship with the Vice President/Publisher and Chief Revenue Officer of Marie Claire magazine, Nancy Berger at Marie Claire NYC Headquarters. Nancy has generously offered to allowed herself to [...]
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Check Your Mouth™ Campaign
The Check Your Mouth™ Campaign is a public service effort created by The Oral Cancer Foundation, with the hopes of creating an informed public which is able to self discover abnormalities that may be dangerous. [...]
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Oral and Oropharyngeal incidence rates for 2019
The database which collects information about cancer in the US has been updated this month. The HARD DATA is in for 2013. Yes, I know that was 6 years ago, but the data always lags [...]
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OCF Southern California Oral Cancer Walk Wrap-up – 2016
This last weekend the OCF 3rd Annual Southern California Oral Cancer Walk for Awareness took place in Fountain Valley at Mile Square Park. The walk is a little different than others, as the volunteers that [...]
Float Like a Butterfly, Sting Like a Bee
Many people over the years have joined OCF in our fight against Oral Cancer, but we now have a partner quite literally fighting for Oral Cancer Awareness –Gregory Copeland is using his passion of boxing [...]
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Dr. Maura Gillison elected to the National Academy of Sciences
The National Academy of Sciences (NAS) is a private, non-profit society of distinguished scholars. Established by an Act of Congress, signed into existence by President Abraham Lincoln in 1863, the NAS is charged with providing [...]
Vitamix and The Oral Cancer Foundation
Vitamix Partnership Treatments for oral cancers create eating and swallowing issues for patients. During treatment, radiation and chemotherapy create painful mucositis sores that make eating by mouth difficult to the extreme, and many times patients [...]
Bachelor Auction Raises Money for OCF
Don’t want to be alone on Valentine’s Day? Come to a bachelor auction! That’s right ladies, 30 bachelors have passed a screening test, ages 32-55, and will be strutting their stuff on Friday February 10, [...]
12 year old Elena bakes to raise funds for OCF
Elena Cohen of Easton PA is the 12 yr old daughter of Eva Grayzel Cohen, a stage 4 oral cancer survivor, now seven years out from her disease. In preparation for her Bat-Mitzvah, Elena had [...]
Bob Dylan Tribute Concert Benefits The Oral Cancer Foundation
When Dan Roth’s lifelong friend and fellow musician called with an idea to do a benefit music concert—and told Roth he could pick the cause—the decision came naturally: Roth, a two-time oral cancer survivor, chose [...]
An Oral Cancer Walk in the Heart of Tobacco Country
Like many dental professionals, Dr. Mark Pelletier and his staff at Premier Aesthetic Dentistry outside of Columbia, South Carolina had read numerous articles over the past several years discussing the surprising growth in the number [...]
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“Be part of the change™”
In the world of cancer one of the most impactful things that can take place is the earliest possible discovery that a cancer or precancerous condition is present. Early discovery yields less morbid treatments, and [...]
Rodeo – Tobacco Outreach
The foundation is a big believer that in order to solve problems, that you have to become engaged where the problems live. The western/rodeo environment in the US has had a long-term relationship with tobacco, [...]
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Coldplay & Charitybuzz Partner with The Oral Cancer Foundation
The Oral Cancer Foundation has a new relationship with two powerful entities, the band Coldplay and CharityBuzz. The band has generously offered to allow CharityBuzz to auction three great events at their largest concerts on [...]
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OCF in Africa Part 7, developing useful skills
Before the story of my surgical trip to Africa can continue, I need to explain something about what made me a suitable choice to be part of this effort. My story must go backwards a [...]
OCF in Africa – Part 6
It is important to understand what makes a great instructor. Throughout my life I have either taught or have been taught things where a lack of precision and mastery has wildly severe consequence. Out of [...]
OCF in Africa – Part 5
Many who are following this story are far removed from neck surgeries, and even those of us that have been through them really are not versed on what actually happens as we experience them under [...]
OCF in Africa – Part 4
When I was a much younger guy (when Moby Dick was a minnow) I was a pretty fair musician. 14 years of classical piano training under my belt made picking up the guitar pretty easy. [...]
OCF in Africa – Part 3
More selection day images. Besides the obvious visual and tactile exam, there were questions. Some of them seemed curious at first pass; what do you do for a living? You might wonder how that relates [...]
OCF in Africa – Part 2
There were so many in need when we arrived on site. Some had traveled for days to hopefully be chosen for a surgery. The day before the exams, and the selection of patients we thought [...]
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OCF in Africa
I'm still not sure what day it is or time zone it feels like, but I'm back in Boise after a drive from western Kenya to Nairobi over a washboard dirt road that would ruin [...]
Prelude to OCF in Africa
My departure is now only a few days away. While my preparation has taken a month, that part is over; and now a set of skills, long rusty, have been practiced to a point where [...]
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Nivolumab Improved Survival For Patients With Head and Neck Squamous Cell Carcinoma
The American Academy of Clinical Research has put out a press release today talking about the amazing progress that immuno therapies are having across a platform of different cancers. This is a total game changer [...]
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OCF Founder, Brian R. Hill, Honored by the Global Oral Cancer Forum
The GOCF organizers and community awarded Hill the 2016 Global Oral Cancer Forum Commitment, Courage and Innovation Leadership Award for his dedication and contributions to the field of oral cancer over the last 18 years. [...]
Dr. Mark DeLacure and The Oral Cancer Foundation
Dr. Mark DeLacure is a good personal friend and long term advisor to the Oral Cancer Foundation. While primarily a head and neck surgeon, his areas of expertise are so extensive, that OCF has been [...]
Dr. Anil Chaturvedi – OCF
At the Global Oral Cancer Forum with Dr. Anil Chaturvedi, from the National Cancer Institute, Division of Cancer Epidemiology & Genetics, Infections and Immunoepidemiology Branch. His work addresses research questions on etiology and natural history [...]
Dr. Miriam Rosen OCF
At the Global Oral Cancer Forum faculty dinner at the beautiful home of Stan Bergman, the CEO of Henry Schein, who was the funding and initiative behind making this international meeting come to pass. More [...]
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Dr. Maura Gillison at the Multidisciplinary Head and Neck Cancer Symposium
Sharing time with long-term mentor and collaborator Dr. Maura Gillison at the Multidisciplinary Head and Neck Cancer Symposium in Scottsdale, AZ. Dr. Gillison has elucidated much of what we know about the HPV etiology, and [...]
Multidisciplinary Head and Neck Cancer Symposium
Just wrapping a three day trip at the Multidisciplinary Head and Neck Cancer Symposium in Scottsdale, AZ. One of my favorite meetings each year as many of OCF's supported researchers are presenting their work here, [...]
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OCF Giving Tuesday – 2015
After Black Friday has passed, the official effort to raise funding for deserving charities on the Internet begins on #givingtuesday December 1st. It may be single digits outside, but nothing can cool my desire to [...]
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HPV research team a big OCF supporter
Dr. Gillison and I have celebrating more than a decade and a half of working together, as mentor and student, and of OCF donors sponsoring her breakthrough HPV research that completely changed our understanding of [...]
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Learning Outside of Class
Cathy Draper is an adjunct faculty member in the dental hygiene program of Foothill College, as well as the student advisor for the school’s American Dental Hygiene Association chapter. Concerned about more than just her [...]
The Oral Cancer Foundation and Cody Kiser Partner Up Against Tobacco at Snake River Stampede Rodeo
Rodeo Cowboy Cody Kiser steps up as the new spokesperson and role model for The Oral Cancer Foundation. While the world of rodeo has been the realm of sponsorship by the tobacco industry for decades, [...]
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A Small Town That Gets Big Results
Rossville, Indiana may have only about 1,300 residents, but four of them are very special people. And all four work at Rossville Family Dentistry: Dr. Alice Sue Green, her daughter Dr. Jennifer Green-Springer, hygienist Shana [...]
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Philly’s Fourth Fantastic Fundraiser
The University of Pennsylvania School of Dental Medicine goes to great lengths to make a large variety of activities available to its students, and many of those activities are of a charitable nature. One year [...]
San Antonio Rose…to the Occasion!
San Antonio is known for many things, including the legendary Alamo, the beautiful Riverwalk, the NBA’s Spurs, and the Patsy Cline song, “San Antonio Rose.” And thanks to Elizabeth Sikon, it’s also developing a reputation [...]
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It Ain’t Braggin’ If You Can Do It!
Minutes after raising over $17,000 for the Oral Cancer Foundation during Nashville’s “Boot Scootin’ for Oral Cancer Screening III” walk one year ago, lead event organizer Nicki Raines predicted that the 2012 event would raise [...]
A Big Band Serenades Another Big Success in Chattanooga
No one can say that Jeanna Rachelson doesn’t know how to throw a party. Or a great fundraiser. For the third straight year, the stage 4 oral cancer survivor organized a hugely successful Chattanooga Oral [...]
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NYU Says, “What Seven Year Itch?”
According to the classic Marilyn Monroe comedy The Seven Year Itch, the steam can supposedly go out of a relationship when it reaches the seven-year point. Fortunately, that phenomenon doesn’t apply to the relationship between [...]
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Johnny’s Angels
When Johnny Hayes passed away following a three-year bout with oral cancer on November 18, 2011, he left behind his wife Viola and his grown daughters Pamela, Darlene and Tiffany. These four most important women [...]
Baltimore Walks to Make Oral Cancer History, and to Honor “Poppy”
On April 14, 2012, the Student National Dental Association (SNDA) chapter of the University of Maryland School of Dentistry held its fourth annual “Walk to Make Oral Cancer History.” This year’s walk was particularly special, [...]
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Son, Father Hike 110 Miles to Benefit Oral Cancer Foundation
A Glen Allen, VA, boy and his father put blood and sweat (but no tears) into an effort to memorialize a loved one and support the Oral Cancer Foundation in the process: They hiked 110 [...]
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High School Project Earns a Perfect Score in More Ways Than One
Like other seniors at Fredericksburg Academy in Fredericksburg, Virginia, Ryan Hudson needed to select a project that dealt with something about which he knew very little and that would in some way help him better [...]
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David Nasto Memorial Walk for Oral Cancer Awareness
A Sister Honors Her Brother by Supporting Oral Cancer Foundation First Annual Memorial Walk Raises Over $10,000 to Promote Early Detection David Nasto was the kind of person many of us wish we could be. [...]
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Dental Abstracts Magazine Features Editorial by OCF Founder Brian Hill on the Value of Early Detection.
Article is a showcase of the responsibilities of the dental community in early discovery of disease, and a call to action for the individual dentist. View - Download
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OCF partners with Proctor and Gamble, Walmart, USC School of Dentistry, and others to offer free public screenings
The Oral Cancer Foundation lit a fuse in Los Angeles recently that it hopes will set off a nationwide firecracker of prevention against a disease that, while potentially lethal, is highly survivable if caught in [...]
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Dance Troupe Dedicates Show to benefit The Oral Cancer Foundation
Picture a performance in a hall of 1,000 seats, only a little more than 200 of which are filled, and you probably think of a stage disappointment. But triumphs can occur in unexpected venues, and [...]
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Dental Lifesavers
(Please note that this editorial was written in early 2003 and some of the data and statistics about the disease and the foundation have change since it was published in Dental Abstracts magazine.) An oxymoron? [...]