Here is information on staging from the Oral Cancer Foundation website. You'll find a lot of other useful information there as well.

If you are on the message boards and a question you want to research comes to mind, the gold "Search" link at the bottom of each page (in the dark area) takes you directly to the search page for the main OCF site.

Leslie

April 2006: Husband dx by dentist with leukoplakia on tongue. Oral surgeon's biopsy 4/28/06: Moderate dysplasia; pathology report warned of possible "skip effect." ENT's excisional biopsy (got it all) 5/31/06: SCC in situ/small bit superficially invasive. Early detection saves lives.