The Oral Cancer Foundation (OCF), states that close to 43,250 Americans will be diagnosed with oral or pharyngeal (throat) cancer this year. It will cause over 8,000 deaths, killing roughly one person per hour, 24 hours per day. Of those 42,000 diagnosed individuals, only slightly more than half will be alive in five years. This is a number that has not significantly improved in decades. With statistics like these, Dr. Gaudio calls for action, “I want all of my patients to come in and have the OralCDx test done as soon as possible. The earlier we catch the bad cells, the better chance we have of saving lives.”