I was recently diagnosed with SCC on my tongue.

Luckily we have caught it very early, my ENT specialist thinks it is at best a big stage I at worst a small stage II. He is also VERY confident that it will be taken care of by surgery alone.

Can anyone out there give me some sort of idea of what to expect especially after surgery?? My surgeon says that he will take frozen sections of my tongue and will probably leave it open to help with better tongue functionality although he says that it will hurt like crazy!! (his words!!!). Will it really hurt that much??? - and you can be brutally honest with me!! And how about tongue functionality is he being overly optimistic do you think?? He also thinks that because I have already quit smoking that the chances of recurrence have lessened greatly.

Also, I guess I am very luck in that in many cases this kind of cancer usually isnt discovered until it has already spread my CT scan results showed there has been no spreading anywhere else.

Thank you all for reading this..... I have great support from family and friends but I guess there is nothing like communicating with people in the same situation sometimes!!

Thanks
Christopher H