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BCCC dental program offers free oral cancer screening

BCCC dental program offers free oral cancer screening

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baltimore-city-community-collegeBaltimore City Community College’s dental hygiene program students will be offering free oral screening Thursday from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. in the Life Science Building lobby at the school, 2901 Liberty Heights Ave.

Oral cancer screening is an examination that will be performed by dental hygiene students who will look for signs of cancer or precancerous conditions in the patient’s mouth and tongue. The goal of oral cancer screening is to detect mouth cancer or precancerous lesions that may lead to mouth cancer at an early stage — when cancer or lesions are easiest to remove and most likely to be cured.

No appointment is necessary and the procedure is expected to only takes a few minutes.