Mouth cancer can affect individuals in so many ways.
Below is a selection of case studies, each of whom has suffered with mouth cancer. Please click on the links to read their stories. If you work in the media and would like to arrange an interview with one of these case studies, please contact the Foundation Press Office on pr@dentalhealth.org.uk or call 0870 770 4014.
Anne Wardle – Sutton Coldfield
I’ve never smoked in my life but because of mouth cancer I have had to give up my job as a swimming coach and struggle to eat properly. I feel lucky though, because if I had been diagnosed five years earlier it would never have been found until it was too late!
Now though, everything has changed and life has moved on. I began work as Managing Director of a UK PLC in June and though I am still on two-monthly check ups I am only seven months from the magic two years.
There’s no point worrying about it as I’ve better things to do. I guess you are either a glass half full type or glass half empty type - and I think that can often determine your post cancer outlook.
The Second time I was at home the next day and pottering in the garden by the end of the week. That is the difference between prompt action and delay - and it can be the difference between life and death!
Fortunately, as my condition was caught early the treatment has been more straightforward than it could have been. I feel like I’ve been given an early wake-up call.
