 Patient Advocate (1000+ posts)
Joined: Nov 2005 Posts: 1,128 | Don't delay -- See an ENT as quickly as you can; he/she will likely have to cut a piece out and send it to a lab for biopsy to be sure.
If it is something cancerous, the quicker it is gotten out of there, the better, because it would spread and can easily be dealt with in the early stages.
Pete
Age 67 1/2
Ventral Tongue SCC T2N0M0G1 10/05
Anterior Tongue SCC T2N0M0G2 6/08
Base of Tongue SCC T2N0M0G2 12/08
Three partial glossectomy (10/05,11/05,6/08), PEG, 37 XRT 66.6 Gy 1/06
Neck dissection, trach, PEG & forearm free flap (6/08)
Total glossectomy, trach, PEG & thigh free flap (12/08)
On August 21, 2010 at 9:20 am, Pete went off to play with the ratties in the sky.
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