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“Open Wide” will be a familiar phrase to many Rappahannock and neighboring county residents on Friday, July 31st when a (Tee Mouth Cancer Detection Day will be observed.

Anyone 21 years or over may visit the clinic at the Health Department in Rappahannock between 1 p.m. and 6 p.m. and receive a free examination for mouth (oral) cancer.

Cancers of the mouth afflict 26,000 Americans annually and kill about 9,000. In Virginia, approximately 18S deaths from this cancer are expected in 1981.

The tragedy is that cancers of the mouth and associated regions are among the most easily detected of all. Like skin cancers, they are readily accessible to diagnosis and

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