Please help me - still overwhelmed and in shock. Friday husband went to dentist for sore on tongue. Dentist cut it out on the spot and sent for biopsy.The next day husband ended up in ER with extreme throat pain. They did CAT scan and gave us good news that the cat scan looked clear. So we were elated and thought that probably meant we caught it early. Then yesterday dentist gives us biopsy results : "Squamous Cell Carcinoma stage 3". We freak out because stage 3 sounds more late than early. Called UVA cancer center this morning and they told us that is just his "pathological stage" and that he needs to be clinically assessed by an ENT and that he may or may not be actually stage 3. Huh? So my question to you veteran fighters is this: were any of you diagnosed with stage 3 on the biopsy and then later staged less (or more) clinically?