Hey Tina,
My husband had what started out to be a normal canker sore, but white if you have ever had one. He waited to it got to past nickel size on his tongue and then the reg doc waited another month giving him antibotics for what he thought was a viral infection. To make a long story shorter, it was Squamous Cell Carcinoma, Stage 3 by then and we have just been through so much since then. I would definitely not wait as it did us great harm the longer we were put off. It might not be cancer, but now we know anything that lasts longer than 2 weeks in your mouth is defintely something you want checked and hopefully biopsied to be sure as soon as possible. In Dan's case, the cancer moved and became agressive extremely fast, so NO don't hesitate.

Get a great support system and my prayers are with you.
Thanks,
Debbie

Debbie - Caregiver for husband, Dan, diagnosed with tongue cancer 7/03. Partial gloss., mod. neck dissections, graft. Recurrence neck tumor 12/03. Radical left neck dissection 12/24/03-unable to get all the tumor. 8 weeks chemo/rad beginning 1/12/04.