 Administrator, Director of Patient Support Services Patient Advocate (old timer, 2000 posts)
Joined: Jun 2007 Posts: 10,507 Likes: 7 | Welcome to OCF!
Congrats on quitting smoking!!! I know quitting is not easy but it could be a life or death decision. PLEASE... NEVER use tobacco again! Its not worth the risk.
Hopefully your sore is nothing serious. You are doing the right thing to get it checked. Only thru a biopsy will you know for certain what it is. Oral cancer tumors do not always hurt, mine didnt hurt at all. But other patients experience alot of pain. Hopefully its nothing serious!
It usually takes about a week to get the results from a biopsy. Hopefully it will be nothing serious and you wont need our group. But, if it would be cancer then you are in the right place for info and support.
Good luck!!!
ChristineSCC 6/15/07 L chk & by L molar both Stag I, age44 2x cispltn-35 IMRT end 9/27/07 -65 lbs in 2 mo, no caregvr Clear PET 1/08 4/4/08 recur L chk Stag I surg 4/16/08 clr marg 215 HBO dives 3/09 teeth out, trismus 7/2/09 recur, Stg IV 8/24/09 trach, ND, mandiblctmy 3wks medicly inducd coma 2 mo xtended hospital stay, ICU & burn unit PICC line IV antibx 8 mo 10/4/10, 2/14/11 reconst surg OC 3x in 3 years very happy to be alive  | 
