Customisable images Make your own Mouth Cancer Action Month materials using our customisable Canva templates. Expand Create your own images with our official Canva templates Customisable Instagram post Click on the button above to gain access to our official Canva Instagram post template. Customisable Instagram story Click on the button above to gain access to our official Canva Instagram story template. Customisable event poster Click on the button above to gain access to our official Canva poster template. This can be used to display in your offices/workplaces or community spaces to advertise your mouth cancer events or fundraisers. Customisable Twitter/X and LinkedIn post Click on the button above to access our official Canva Twitter/X and LinkedIn post template. Customisable Facebook post Click on the button above to gain access to our official Canva Facebook post template.
Banners and signatures Download these resources to display on social media pages and email signatures. Expand Social media profile banner Use this banner on your social media pages to show your support for Mouth Cancer Action.
Extra digital resources Download press release templates, waiting room presentations and the 2022 campaign logo. Expand Press release template Show your support by editing this press release template and sending it to your local newspapers, radio stations or regional television. Download the press release template Mouth Cancer Action Month 2022 logo Download this year's campaign logos and use them to support Mouth Cancer Action Month in your own marketing and media materials. This logo should not be edited in any way, to ensure that your posts comply with the campaign's brand guidelines. If you edit our logo you will be asked to remove the post and reupload it with the official logo. Download the Mouth Cancer Action Month 2022 logo Useful links: Digital downloads and resources The Blue Ribbon Appeal Make a donation to Mouth Cancer Action Month
Mouth cancer stories Posters and social media graphics of people telling their stories of beating mouth cancer. Expand Posters Print off these poster and place it around the workplace noticeboard or patient waiting rooms. Poster 1: David's Story Poster 2: Charlotte's Story Poster 3: Ben's Story Social Media Graphics Post these social graphics on your social media pages. Social Post 1: David's Story Social Post 2: Charlotte's Story Social Post 3: Ben's Story Useful links: Digital downloads and resources The Blue Ribbon Appeal Make a donation to Mouth Cancer Action Month
State of Mouth Cancer Report The latest mouth cancer statistics and trends. Download the report and social media graphics to share online. Expand State of Mouth Cancer UK Report 2022 Information about the campaign and how to support it, along with links to all downloadable resources. Download the State of Mouth Cancer UK Report 2022 Social Media Graphics Post these social graphics on your social media pages. Social post 1: The number of mouth cancer incidence Social post 2: The number of mouth cancer deaths Social post 3: The increase in mouth cancer cases (%) Social post 4: Where mouth cancer can appear Social post 5: Demographics Useful links: Digital downloads and resources The Blue Ribbon Appeal Make a donation to Mouth Cancer Action Month
Be Mouthaware Posters and social media graphics raising awareness about the signs and symptoms of mouth cancer. Expand Signs & Symptoms Posters Order your posters from our dedicated shop website. Visit dentalhealthshop.org Social media images Post these social graphics on your social media pages. All images can be downloaded using the button below. Editing social media post images in any way without our permission is strictly prohibited. Should you edit these images before posting you will be asked to take it down. Please respect our mouth cancer ambassadors. Laura: Are you mouthaware? Sarah: A simple check can save your life Sid: If in doubt, get checked out Sarah: Are you mouthaware? Laura: A simple check can save your life Sid: If in doubt, get checked out Download all mouthaware images Useful links: Digital downloads and resources The Blue Ribbon Appeal Make a donation to Mouth Cancer Action Month
Mouth Cancer Action Month campaign resources Help us raise awareness of November's campaign and why it is so important. Expand Purchase campaign posters and resources Order your posters from our dedicated shop website. Visit dentalhealthshop.org Social media posts Post these images on your social media to raise awareness of mouth cancer. Editing social media post images in any way without our permission is strictly prohibited. Should you edit these images before posting you will be asked to take it down. Please respect our mouth cancer ambassadors. To download these images, click on the button labelled 'Download all social media images' Instagram posts These images have been optimised for Instagram's new post dimensions so that they will look great on your profile as well as your followers' feeds. November is Mouth Cancer Action Month I am supporting Mouth Cancer Action Month We are supporting Mouth Cancer Action Month Speaking out about mouth cancer Show your support with a blue ribbon Make a donation to raise awareness of Mouth Cancer Action Month X, Facebook and LinkedIn posts These images will look great on any social media platform, but have been optimised to work best on X, Facebook and LinkedIn. November is Mouth Cancer Action Month I am supporting Mouth Cancer Action Month We are supporting Mouth Cancer Action Month Speaking out about mouth cancer Show your support with a blue ribbon Make a donation to raise awareness of Mouth Cancer Action Month Download all social media images The Blue Ribbon Appeal Make a donation to the Mouth Cancer Action Appeal
Mouth Cancer Ambassadors Download these posters of our ambassadors to spread awareness of mouth cancer and the real-life impacts Expand Editing these images in any way without our permission is strictly prohibited. You will be asked to take it down if you edit these images before posting or displaying them. Please respect our mouth cancer ambassadors. Rachel Parson's Story Click on the image to open and save. Suwinder Singh's Story Click on the image to open and save Sinead Marland's Story Click on the image to open and save Joe Butler's Story Click on the image to open and save. Sarah Davies's Story Click on the image to open and save. Robert Powell's Story Click on the image to open and save.
Blue Wednesday Encourage people to do self-checks for mouth cancer on the 13th of November for Blue Wednesday. Expand Social Media Graphics Post these social graphics on your social media pages. All images are located in the folder labelled 'Download all Blue Wednesday Images' below. Editing social media post images in any way without our permission is strictly prohibited. If you edit these images before posting, you will be asked to remove them. Please respect our mouth cancer ambassadors. Instagram posts These images have been optimised for Instagram's new post dimensions and will look great on your profile and followers' feeds. All these images are found in the folder below. Joe: Check your mouth this Blue Wednesday Karen: Check your mouth this Blue Wednesday Sinead: Check your mouth this Blue Wednesday Rachel: Where to check for mouth cancer Sinead: Look for the signs of mouth cancer Facebook, X and LinkedIn posts These landscape posts will fit great on all social media sites, but have been optimised for X, Facebook and LinkedIn. All of these images are available to download in the folder below. Karen: Check your mouth this Blue Wednesday Laura: Check your mouth this Blue Wednesday Robert: Check your mouth this Blue Wednesday Sarah: Look out for the signs of mouth cancer Sinead: Where to check for mouth cancer Download all Blue Wednesday images Useful links: Digital downloads and resources The Blue Ribbon Appeal Make a donation to Mouth Cancer Action Month
Scotland Expand Heads Up Support Group Facebook Group Maggie's Glasgow Gartnavel General Hospital 1053 Great Western Road Glasgow GL2 0YN [email protected] 0141 357 2269 Speak Easy Cancer Support Group Ann Muir MBC - Chair 8 Moffat Court Blackwood Lanarkshire ML11 9YJ [email protected] / 01555 893 184 / 07788 735185 www.speakeasylaryngectomee.co.uk
Northern Ireland Expand Craigavon Area Hospital 66 Lurgan Road Portadown Co Armagh BT63 5QQ www.southerntrust.hscni.net/service/macmillanhealthandwellbeing/ Northern Ireland Health Trusts There are 5 Health and Social Care (HSC) Trusts providing cancer services across Northern Ireland. For more information on cancer services and cancer support in your area, link to your Trust area below. Belfast Health & Social Care Trust Cancer Services Northern Health & Social Care Trust – Cancer Services South Eastern Health & Social Care Trust – Cancer Services Southern Health & Social Care Trust Western Health & Social Care Trust
England (West) Expand Cancer Information and Support Centre - Bristol Bristol Oncology Centre, Horfield Road, Bristol, BS2 8ED [email protected] / 0117 928 3369 Outlook & Clinical Health Psychology Office 3, Gate 38, Level 3 Brunel Building Southmead Hospital Southmead Road Westbury-on-Trym Bristol BS10 5NB 0117 414 4888 [email protected]
England (East) Expand Headstart - Head and Neck Support www.headstartcancersupport.org.uk [email protected] Changes (Cancer Head and Neck Group Essex Support) www.changesessex.co.uk [email protected] Ipswich Head & Neck Cancer Support Group Rushmere Bowls Club (2nd Wednesday of the month) 136 Rushmere Road Ipswich IP4 4JU 01473 715748 Colchester Head & Neck Support Group The Cancer & Wellbeing Information Centre Colchester General Hospital Turner Road Colchester CO4 5JL www.colchestercancerinformation.co.uk Sally-Anne Philpott [email protected] 01206 286900 Head and Neck Cancer Support Group (HANC) 'Big C' Cancer Information Centre Norfolk & Norwich University Hospital Outside East Block Inpatients Department Astra Hall Norfolk and Norwich University Hospital outside the East Block Inpatients entrance. Astra Hall - Head & Neck Specialist Nurse [email protected] 01603 288198 Crokus Club Peterborough Head & Neck Cancer Support Group [email protected] www.headandneckcancersupport.co.uk Alan Stevens (Chairman) 07753 749170
England (South) Expand Head, Neck & Thyroid Clinical Nurse Specialists Poole General Hospital Claire Clark - [email protected] / 01202 442365 Karen Roberts [email protected] / 01202 442071 Changing Faces The Squire Centre, 33-37 University Street, London, WC1E 6JN [email protected] / 0845 4500 275 THANCS Group macmillan.org.uk [email protected] c/o Macmillan Horizon Centre 2 Bristol Gate Brighton BN2 5BN
England (North) Expand Mid Yorkshire Warblers Head and Neck Cancer Group Helen Chadwick Ward 7, Pinderfields General Hospital, Aberford Road, Wakefield, West Yorkshire, WF1 4DG 01924 542544 SLC Laryngectomee Club Mr Bertrum Culling [email protected] / 0191 536 9655 Preston District Laryngectomy Association Kim Winterton 01257 453012 [email protected] www.prestonlarrys.weebly.com Heads Up Cancer Support Group Laura, Helen, Kate and Katie 07557 317225 07810 154880 01228 603978 [email protected]
I need help promoting my Mouth Cancer Action event. Can you help me? Expand Yes. Our team is on hand to help you ensure your fundraising is as successful as it can be. From providing posters, sponsorship forms, social media and press release templates, help is on hand to help spread awareness. Here are our quick tips to making your event the talk of the town... Use local media: Local newsletters, daily papers, radio stations and television in your area are always keen on covering events for a good cause, so make them aware of the details of your event in good time! Some ingenious advertising of your own can also increase your audience. Hand out flyers: A cheap, effective way of promoting your event is to hand out flyers a few weeks in advance. Make them as interesting as possible: include all the key information such as the date, venue and type of event you have planned. Make sure people know about your event! Smile for the camera: Think about photo opportunities – local papers love to use fun, entertaining photos as a basis for covering of local events. Book a photographer, because a good photo is a great way of generating media coverage and makes an excellent memento of your successful event. Write a press release: Why not send out a press release too? It’s an excellent means of promoting a good oral healthcare message through your local media outlets to a large, local audience. Go social: Post about your event on social media. Create a fundraising page on our website and ask people to share it. You might be surprised about far far and wide it goes. Need more of a helping hand? That’s no problem. Contact our dedicated PR team who are experts in making some noise around events. Together we can help guide you on your fundraising journey.
How should I raise and collect funds from friends, family and supporters? Expand You can set up a personalised online by creating your very own donation page. This offers a really easy way for people to sponsor you and add messages of support to spur you on when the training gets tough. When creating your own fundraising page you can select where your money goes. You can choose to donate it to the Oral Health Foundation in general, to help us achieve all our charitable objectives, or select one of our rotating appeals, which help go towards a specific cause. You can then share your page on Facebook and Twitter to get the word out to all your friends and family. If you’re looking a bit low tech, we can also help support you with collection tins to collect some cash. You can also download and print off one of our sponsorship forms. More information: Create a fundraising page Sponsorship form for Mouth Cancer Action Contact our press team
How do you use the funds raised for Mouth Cancer Action? Expand Funds raised for our Mouth Cancer Action Appeal will be used to help make more people aware of the causes, signs and symptoms of mouth cancer so cases can both be prevented and caught early enough for effective intervention. Your support will also help us continue our drive to change behaviours which contribute to the majority of mouth cancer cases in the UK, such as minimum alcohol pricing and plain cigarette packaging. Your donations make a huge difference in helping us to save lives from mouth cancer. Without your support, Mouth Cancer Action Month would not be possible and you are the reason we are able to continue raising awareness of a disease that affects more and more people each year. You can be assured that your fundraising goes to exactly where you want it to. As a charity we are entirely open and honest with our intentions and show you what your fundraising goes towards.
How do I make a donation for Mouth Cancer Action? Expand You can send us your donations in various ways, whichever is most convenient for you. The safest and quickest way you can send us your money is online through our donations portal. Simply select which appeal you would like to donate to and enter the amount you have raised for us. You can also pay in your money offline too. If you have collected money through a sponsorship form or a fundraising event, you can either send us your card details via our donation form, or send us a cheque with our paying in slip. Both of these forms (links below) will guide you about where to send your donations. For your security, please do not send us cash in the post. Finally, you can issue a bank transfer. If you would like to do this, contact our team and we will guide you through this process. More information: Donate to the Oral Health Foundation Donate to our other causes Donation form Paying in slip Payroll giving
I want to fundraise for Mouth Cancer Action Month. What do I do? Expand Start by taking a look at our top fundraising ideas to help inspire you to get involved. If you’re not sure what you want to do, send us a message and we’ll be in touch to help you find the fundraising activity that’s perfect for you. If you're planning on doing a fundraising event during Mouth Cancer Action Month, why not arrange your event for Blue Wednesday? Once you have decided what you are doing and when, go to our create a fundraising page. This page will allow you to enter all your event details and share it with your friends and family so they can donate and support you. You can even upload photos and videos of your journey along the way! If you need anymore help, check out our planning your event page. We are also on hand to offer support and advice to help you achieve your fundraising goals. Simply contact our press team. More information: Create a fundraising page Planning your event Contact our press team
Trends over time Expand In the last ten years, cases have risen by 38% in the UK. Rates of mouth cancer has increased by an astonishing 133% over the last 20 years (England data only). The latest research says that deaths from mouth cancer in the UK have increased by 5% compared to last year. Sadly, the number of people losing their life to mouth cancer has also grown. The latest research says that deaths from mouth cancer have increased by 52% compared with ten years’ ago.
Survival Expand Spotting mouth cancer early is crucial for beating the disease. Early detection boosts our chances of survival from 50% to 90%. Depending on where the cancer strikes, the one-year survival rate for mouth cancer is between 60% and 84%. Survival rate after 10 years drops to between 18% and 57%. Women have better one-year, five-year and 10-year survival rates compared to men. Hypopharyngeal cancer has the lowest survival rate standing at just over 60% after one year and around 18% after 10 years. Oropharyngeal cancer has the highest survival rate standing at just over 84% after one year and nearly 57% after 10 years. Tongue cancer 80% of men survive tongue cancer for at least one year. This is predicted to fall to 60% surviving for five years or more. Survival for women is similar with 81% surviving for one year or more, and 62% predicted to survive for at least five years. The ten year survival rate for tongue cancer is 51% in men and 54% in women. Oropharyngeal cancer 84% of men survive oropharyngeal cancer for at least one year, and this is predicted to fall to 66% surviving for five years or more. Survival for women is similar with 84% surviving for one year or more, and 66% predicted to survive for at least five years The ten year survival rate for oropharyngeal cancer is 57% in men and 59% in women. Oral cavity cancer 78% of men survive oral cavity cancer for at least one year, and this is predicted to fall to 54% surviving for five years or more. Survival for women is similar to men one year after diagnosis with 79% surviving for one year or more and higher than men at five years after diagnosis with 60% predicted to survive for at least five years. The ten year survival rate for oral cavity cancer is 42%% in men and 50% in women. Hypopharyngeal cancer 60% of men survive hypopharyngeal cancer for at least one year, and this is predicted to fall to 27% surviving for five years. Survival for women is similar with 61% surviving for one year or more, and 30% predicted to survive for at least five years. The ten year survival rate for hypopharyngeal cavity cancer is 18% in men and 23% in women.
Mouth cancer risk factors Expand Lifetime risk The estimated lifetime risk of being diagnosed with mouth cancer is around 1 in 55 (2%) for males, and 1 in 108 (less than 1%) for females born after 1960 in the UK. Smoking Around two-in-three (66%) mouth cancers are linked to smoking. The risk of being diagnosed with mouth cancer for a smoker is almost double (91%) that of a never-smoker. Mouth cancer risk is 35% lower in ex-smokers who quit 1-4 years previously, compared with current smokers. Mouth cancer risk is no higher in ex-smokers who quit 20+ years previously, compared with never-smokers. Mouth cancer risk is around 3 times higher in bidi smokers compared with bidi never-smokers. Smokeless tobacco Mouth cancer risk is up to four and a half times higher in smokeless tobacco users. This risk may be higher in females and for users of chewing types of smokeless tobacco. Alcohol Those who drink more than 10 units of alcohol a week could be increasing the risk of mouth cancer by 81%. Drinking alcohol to excess is linked to around a third (34%) of all mouth cancers. If you both smoke and drink to excess it can increase your risk of developing mouth cancer can be tripple. Human papillomavirus (HPV) The human papillomavirus (HPV) type-16 and 18 are linked to around three in four (73%) oropharyngeal cancers and more than one in ten (12%) oral cavity and hypopharynx cancers. Environmental tobacco smoke (ETS) Mouth cancer risk is 87% higher in never-smokers who have ever been exposed to ETS at home or work, compared with unexposed never-smokers. Mouth cancer risk is more than twice higher in never-smokers exposed to ETS at home or work for 15+ years, compared with unexposed never-smokers. Infections Mouth cancer risk is around twice higher in people with HIV/AIDS, compared with the general population. Organ transplant Mouth cancer risk is 2-5 times higher in organ transplant recipients compared with the general population. Family history Mouth cancer risk could be up to 70% higher in people with a family (particularly sibling) history of mouth cancer, versus those without such history, a pooled analysis showed.