Hi Brian,
First of all, thanks for being available to us. I am a male, 53 and have just been diagnosed as an oral cancer patient. I have a lesion the size of a dime on the bottom of my tongue. Yes, I am (about to be was) a smoker and drinker. I see the oncologist on 2/5 and am more than a bit frightened. In that I have not seen the doc yet, I have no buzz-words nor diagnoses, but have failed a biopsy. Perhaps more study would have helped.