| Patient Advocate (1000+ posts)
Joined: Mar 2003 Posts: 1,384 Likes: 1 | Raven, you should relax (some). Oral cancers are relatively rare, and even though you use tobacco and alcohol your age would still statistically put you in a very small statistical odds group. In other words this probably is not cancer.. Do see the dentist (because that is easy) but to be sure get a visit with a Ear Nose and Throat ENT doctor. Stop smoking (for your children if not for yourself)
Mark, 21 Year survivor, SCC right tonsil, 3 nodes positive, one with extra-capsular spread. I never asked what stage (would have scared me anyway) Right side tonsillectomy, radical neck dissection right side, maximum radiation to both sides, no chemo, no PEG, age 40 when diagnosed.
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