Hi Stef,

As already mentioned, three exams from your ENT and one from your dentist and they say you're ok. I would take that as pretty good odds that you don't have oral cancer. If they thought something was suspicious, they would have said so and done more. Personally, the only symptom I had was a swollen gland that didn't go away. No bumps on my tongue, no pain, no issues swallowing. A fine needle biopsy of the swollen gland showed the cancer.

Of course we're not doctors but what you described doesn't present itself as oral cancer, at least nothing I experienced or read here. A very specific strain of HPV is responsible for oral cancers and only a very small percentage of people infected with the HPV virus get oral cancer.

If I were to give any advice it would be: Don't smoke, stay away from drinking hard alcohol and speak to a therapist about your health anxiety.

Positive thoughts and prayers

"T"