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Joined: May 2010 Posts: 224 | aprils...i would start either with a dentist, or ent if you can. But i started with a dentist and she referred me to a oral surgeon that tried different things. And it isn't the stage that really determines if they have to remove a piece of your tongue, it's a bunch of different things. So maybe start with ur dentist and go from there.
25/female at diagnosis
Dx;stage 3 SCC tongue 03/25/2010
Surgery 04/13/2010
Trach,ng tube, peg feeding tube
Hemiglossectomy, right side neck dissection, 40 lymph nodes removed. Free-Flap transplant to tongue.
30 rounds IMRT ended July 15,2010
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Joined: Mar 2011 Posts: 21 | i first noticed irritation a small lump fall 09. i was laid off several months with no insurance.
went back to work in jan 10. pain got worse but i ignored it it.
went in feb 13 2011. by that time my tongue hurt bad and had very little movement. also speech problems. had i went in a year earlier things would have been much better.
48 yo male smoker beer drinker biop dx 2/15/11 stg iv scc tongue
teeth out 2/16/11
peg 2/21/11
pet 2/22/11
total glossectomy 4/11/11
18 nodes removed. 1 cancerous margins clear
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