Thank you for the informative and patient reply!

Means of diagnosis was a biopsy to the tongue. There was leukoplakia that Peter didn't like the looks of, so he got it biopsy'd last yr. It was AOK. But several months later, and the biopsy had not healed properly still. So he went in and asked what to do. They said they'd remove the biopsy area of his tongue and stitch it closed. They did so. He went in 1 wk. later to get the two stitches removed and they started in with "You have cancer...Was that too abrupt?"

Good news is the doc says it is stage one.

MRI was noisy. We look forward to the results on Tuesday (tomorrow)....

Cheers!
Mary