Oral Cancer Screening Navigation System

The number of cancer fatalities in our country is 340 thousand annually and this is 60 years of transportation fatalities. It is estimated that oral and pharyngeal cancer fatalities will be more than 7,800 in the 2015. Oral cancer screening is one of improving ways to prevent oral cancer deaths increasing year by year. Recently, there are many dental associations leading oral cancer screening in all parts of the country and although it’s local, the performance is being approved. In Tokyo Dental Collage, we have performed oral cancer screening with each dental associations starting from Chiba dental association in 1992. In Ichihara, we have associated with the government hosted oral cancer screening since 2005. We have performed it at ten parts of Chiba prefecture, Edogawa ward, Nerima ward, Setagaya ward, and Mitaka with the governments. In addition, our nation’s first “Oral cancer screening navigation system” was set in 2012. Today, I will report about the recent “Oral cancer screening navigation system”. The “Oral cancer screening navigation system” is a system where our facility (Tokyo Dental Collage, department of oral and maxillofacial surgery) answers the questions from general practices or individual screenings as a control center. We support by judging the necessity of detailed examinations and by introducing them to advanced medical facilities. The specialty of this system is that patients can listen to specialist’s feedback of the screening at general practice. It is our goal to have this system be used widely and generalize the oral cancer screening.