I had a biopsy done to the area of my tongue that has been acting up, had it done today. The oncologist feels it's chronic irritation from where my upper teeth are scraping and biting at my tongue all the time since the bottom teeth on the left side were removed during surgery. My tongue on that side has "swollen" to fit the open area where the teeth were removed, and they feel in my sleep I am biting and chewing on my tongue. Has anyone else heard of this or experienced this? They did the biopsy as he is a very conservative doctor and wants a 100% that this is nothing abnormal and to also see what type of infection is in there causing it to not heal. Waiting will be rough, I sure wish this would all just go away.

SCC Left Mandible. Jaw replaced with bone from leg. Neck disection, 37 radiation treatments. Recurrence 8-28-07, stage 2, tongue. One third of tongue removed 10-4-07. 5-23-08 chemo started for tumor behind swallowing passage, Our good friend and much loved OCF member Minnie has been lost to the disease (RIP 10-29-08). We will all miss her greatly.