Harry

My Base of Tongue cancer tumor was estimated to have grown slowly for about 7 years. Zero symptoms except two years of misdiagnosed ear pain. In all the subsequent MRIs, PET scans and CT imaging studies, nothing ever showed up on the tongue's surface just the BOT tumor and left neck lymph nodes. I have no medical expertise just experience, but this time the tip off to my recurrence was a "swollen tongue" but just on the left side. Luckily, I did develop a noticeable lump under the skin so I could and did get a biopsy yesterday. One thing I learned from this forum is that sometimes the cancer is very very slow developing and not detectable readily on imaging studies. I hope you do not have cancer, but if you do, it sounds to me like you will be catching it earlier enough to be "cured". Stage IV, not so much. Best wishes and good luck