Rice wins NIH funding for oral-cancer test

(Rice University) Rice University has won a $2 million NIH stimulus grant to develop an inexpensive test for oral cancer that a dentist or oral surgeon could perform by passing a brush over a suspicious lesion. Oral cancers have a five-year survival rate around 50 percent, largely because of late diagnoses. Rice’s test would take less than 30 minutes, require no scalpels or off-site lab tests and could be ready for clinical tests within two years.

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