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Joined: Sep 2018 Posts: 71 Likes: 1 | So update....I got into the Cancer Center....they acknowledged that my tongue cancer is fast growing and surgery was needed quickly. I had surgery October 1st. I lost a fourth of my tongue which they used a skin graft from my neck to repair. I have an incision from the front of my neck to behind my ear for the skin graft and to remove all the lymph nodes from the left side of my neck. Right now I have gauze sewn into my tongue to hold the skin graft in place and a drainage tube in my neck. It's been wild but I'm home and resting comfortably.
Laura Age 40
Tongue lesion on left side grew and was hurting in mid-August
Dx as squamous cell carcinoma on 9.18.18
Left Neck Dissection and tongue surgery, lost a fourth of my tongue on 10.1.18, tumor had grown to a T3
Margins were clear except front section of tongue margin had three stray cancer cells that were not in the tumor
Additional surgery 10.18.18 to remove another cm near where the stray cells were found
33 radiation treatments from Nov 2018 through Jan 2019
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