Second time around - 09-21-2007 01:03 AM
The first time in 2000, I thought I had a canker sore which was actually cancer on the left side of my tongue. I was totally in shock and so scared that they had to remove 1/3 of my tongue with chemo treatments, skin grafts and a trach. I survived with a lot of prayer and help from friends and family. My mother fed and took care of me. Then we found that she had a brain tumor and died two years later. Now I woke up with another sore - very suddenly, went for the biopsy one week and the next had to have another third of my tongue removed on the other side as well as my lymph node. After checking about forty locations in my neck they say I am clear (three weeks after surgery) and don't need chemo. I haven't been to an oncologist just the ENT surgeon. A friend who has had cancer before recommended that I contact an oncologist for recommendations; does anyone have some insight/information on this for me?