Art, exactly what have you be diagnosed with, tongue cancer? It’s not clear from your post. What kind of treatment have you been through, surgery, radiation and/or chem? If you could give more info, you’d find more people can answer your questions to the point.

I would think that the swallowing test right now is the most important. The doctor will be able to determine what’s the problem with your swallowing and then he may choose to do more dilatations or have your work with a speech and language pathologist.

Just so you know, not many of the members of the forum are online at the same time and can talk back and forth. It just doesn’t happen for a forum of this nature. I hope you don’t get disappointed as a result.

Wishing you all the very best at the swallowing test.