I have a young woman friend who had tongue cancer in her mid-20-s, while she was in med. school. She had surgery, and they worried about her speech and her salivation from radiation. She is just fine now...is a practicing ob-gyn dr. and the mother of three young children.


Colleen--T-2N0M0 SCC dx'd 12/28/05...Hemi-maxillectomy, partial palatectomy, neck dissection 1/4/06....clear margins, neg. nodes....no radiation, no chemo....Cancer-free at 4 years!