Faith...you have said you are a surgical rep. You should know that in the world of biopsy, no one has any confidence of anything until the biopsy results come back from the pathologist... so whomever told you they had a 99% suspicion/confidence, whatever that it was cancer would be someone that I wouldn't be listening to any more. Any Dr. worth his salt is not going to make this kind of comment, since they all know that visually you can't tell what is going on for sure, and this is unnecessarily creating anxiety in the patient for something they can't know, and hardly at a 99% certainty.

While leukoplakia is a precancerous lesion, I don't know of any chew tobacco users that do not have it. It is a by-product tissue change that comes from contact with the tobacco. Stop the tobacco and in the vast majority of users it goes away. More than that, only about 25% of all leukoplakias convert to malignancy.

Lastly, a blood lesion? This is a term a doctor used to tell you what you had? I like to know what that is since it is not a term used to described any precancerous or cancerous lesion that I have every heard of.

Also it is not necessary to paste your same posting into several different forums. People usually go to the today