Brian
I believe it is more of a gramatical than factual error. You of course are right, but in this case it appears to be an inartful initial posting not the media. All the newspaper stories I googled explictly noted that his cancer was a rare form of tongue caoncer since it is "usually found on salivary glands" (and not on the tongue) I was somewhat distracted today by joining the PEG majority on OCF so did not notice the incorrect implications in the original post so I only corrected the surgery date in my post. You are a sharp eyed editor.