Oral Cancer Clinical Trials

Dal Dentistry launching clinical trials with ground‑breaking study on oral‑cancer prevention

Researchers at Dalhousie’s Faculty of Dentistry are conducting one of the Faculty’s first clinical trials to determine whether a drug commonly used to treat Type 2 diabetes could be effective in preventing oral cancer — a disease that afflicts a disproportionately higher number of people in Atlantic Canada.


Dr. Leigha Rock, BHCRI scientist member and director of Dal’s School of Dental Hygiene, is leading the three-year chemotherapy prevention trial at Dalhousie along with colleagues at nine other sites throughout the U.S. and Canada. 

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