{"id":507,"date":"2019-02-11T12:01:28","date_gmt":"2019-02-11T12:01:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dentalpro.pt\/en\/?p=507"},"modified":"2019-02-11T12:01:28","modified_gmt":"2019-02-11T12:01:28","slug":"oral-cancer-is-the-sixth-more-prevailing-type-of-cancer-in-portugal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dentalpro.pt\/en\/2019\/02\/11\/oral-cancer-is-the-sixth-more-prevailing-type-of-cancer-in-portugal\/","title":{"rendered":"Oral cancer is the sixth more prevailing type of cancer in Portugal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oral tumours are the sixth more common type of cancer in Portugal. However, it is still frequently forgotten and few Portuguese know that, similarly to breast cancer, there is also a self-exam that can help identifying lesions in due time.<\/p>\n<p>Regular visits to the dentist and be alert for the symptoms are habits that can make the difference, states Jo\u00e3o Braga, dentist. \u201cIn any visit to a dentist, your mouth and all its parts will be visually inspected, allows any suspicious lesions to be detected in early stage\u201d he explains.<\/p>\n<p>He also adds that in these visits, it is possible to examine, identify and treat potentially malignant growth, teach the patient how to perform the self-exam.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oral tumours are the sixth more common type of cancer in Portugal. However, it is still frequently forgotten and few Portuguese know that, similarly to breast cancer, there is also a self-exam that can help identifying lesions in due time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":508,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[20],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dentalpro.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/507"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dentalpro.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dentalpro.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dentalpro.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dentalpro.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=507"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dentalpro.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/507\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":509,"href":"https:\/\/dentalpro.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/507\/revisions\/509"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dentalpro.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dentalpro.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dentalpro.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dentalpro.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}