You are doing the best thing you can do for yourself with this diagnosis and that is get educated on it. This will allow you to ask the right questions and even the Doc's don't want you to ask. Time is your biggest enemy. The tissue of your tongue replaces itself every 7 to 10 days. In order for a tumor to sustain its growth over normal tissue it has to replecate faster than that which means it will likely double in size every week or so. The larger it gets the harder it is to take out or treat without adversely effecting your function. If it were me and I had the means to get to MD Anderson, I would do so as fast as possible. A referall to them from Dr.#2 might get you in and treated the fastest. The next thing they will do is stage the cancer with a number of tests. This takes time and the people who ultimately will do the treatment will want to have their own tests and not use another hospital. Because of the time issue that is why I would say get to MD as soon as you can and let them stage it and give you recommendations for treatment. As a fellow educator I am living proof you can survive this and be able to teach a bunch more students chemistry so they help save the world from global warming. Good luck.