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Joined: Sep 2018 Posts: 71 Likes: 1 | Hello! Girl I'd say everyone on this page, once we're on this side of treatment, fears the R word above all so I understand!! We lived all through the C and forevermore fear recurrence.
Hopefully you just have some leukoplakia and nothing major. It's good your getting it looked at NOW rather than LATER. You sure don't want it to be something major and it grew larger out of fear of just seeing what it is!!
Good luck!!!
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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