You might find the NCCN practice guidelines helpful.
I know I certainly have, but keep in mind this cancer is also quite new to me.
http://www.nccn.org/professionals/physician_gls/PDF/head-and-neck.pdfI believe you may need to get the doctors to be a bit more precise about the diagnosis (what part of his tongue) after which you can follow it thru the NCCN�s recommended diagnosis and treatment matrix.
You will find info as to staging on pg 65 (T1,N0, M0�.)
I found it easier to just download this pdf since I had to keep going back to it as my doctors worked their way thru my DX (diagnosis) to arrive at my TX (Treatment Plan). Also you may need to click around the pdf a bit to get use to it and I suggest you look thru the whole document.
The NCCN membership is composed of our most reputable Cancer Centers and these guidelines should be closely followed by others. I am being treated at an accredited Community Cancer Center and they seem to have closely followed the steps shown to arrive at my DX and now my TX.
The NCCN Member Institutions are:
City of Hope
Dana-Farber/Brigham and Women�s Cancer Center
Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center
Duke Comprehensive Cancer Center
Fox Chase Cancer Center
Huntsman Cancer Institute at the University of Utah
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center / Seattle Cancer Care Alliance
Arthur G. James Cancer Hospital & Richard J. Solove Research Institute at The Ohio State University
The Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins
Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center of Northwestern University
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center & Research Institute
Roswell Park Cancer Institute
Siteman Cancer Center at Barnes-Jewish Hospital and Washington University School of Medicine
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital / University of Tennessee Cancer Institute
Stanford Comprehensive Cancer Center
University of Alabama at Birmingham Comprehensive Cancer Center
UCSF Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center
University of Michigan Comprehensive Cancer Center
UNMC Eppley Cancer Center at The Nebraska Medical Center
The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center
Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center
