MILWAUKEE (Ivanhoe Newswire) -- This year, more than 34,000 people in the United States will be diagnosed with oral cancer -- a cancer that has a higher death rate than cervical cancer, Hodgkin's lymphoma, or skin cancer. Survival rates are not improving; but now, a new treatment may give doctors a way to stop oral cancers before they start.

They're often detected in a routine dental or doctor's exam … red or white lesions called leukoplakia that can turn into serious, even deadly oral cancers.