My primary care doctor looked at the lump and sent me on to an ENT, telling me as he made the referral not to worry it didn't look like cancer. The ENT saw me two days later, did an immediate biopsy and gave me 50/50 odds that it was or wasn't cancer...didn't look like it but it didn't look like anything recognizable. As the week went on and no results, I began calling. His nurse said she'd put the results on his desk, then came back to the phone and said they weren't in...just preliminary ones and they never gave those on the phone. Told me (this was Friday) to come see the doctor on Tuesday at 9. At 10 on Tuesday he finally saw me. He walked into the room, grabbed me tongue again, felt the tumor. Let go and said "you have cancer. It's probably Stage 1 and highly curable, but it spreads quickly. So I'm going to do a pie-shaped cut in your tongue, but first you'll need a CAT scan to see if it has spread already". I said, "no, you're gonna refer me to MDACC since they're the cancer specialists". He didn't respond well..telling me I'd have to wait a couple weeks before I would be seen and no telling where the cancer would spread. Needless to say, I took my chances and am glad I did. After that response no way would I let him treat me.