 "OCF Canuck" Patient Advocate (old timer, 2000 posts)
Joined: Dec 2010 Posts: 5,264 Likes: 5 | Wendy... The mouth is a funny place there are so many things that could be going on... oral thrush (surprisingly painful) cankers any number of issues - even lichen planus.
I would ask him to clarify what he thinks it might be.
now the size of the area he removed for you was the actual size my tumor. My dr. removed it and his smallest margin was .6cm - when he did that - he grafted my tongue and removed nodes.
You have a sizeable chunk of tongue missing, and they are planning to take more?
The only thing that concerns me is going under the knife so many times. ;o) good luck.
Cheryl : Irritation - 2004 BX: 6/2008 : Inflam. BX: 12/10, DX: 12/10 : SCC - LS tongue well dif. T2N1M0. 2/11 hemigloss + recon. : PND - 40 nodes - 39 clear. 3/11 - 5/11 IMRT 33 + cis x2, PEG 3/28/11 - 5/19/11 3 head, 2 chest scans - clear(fingers crossed) HPV-, No smoke, drink, or drugs, Vegan
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