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I’ve recently (within the last month) noticed a bump on the right lateral border of my tongue. It is way in the back, on the side. If I open my mouth & keep my tongue relaxed I can still see it so not sure if it would be considered base of tongue or not. For the most part it looks pink and relatively normal and is firm but not rock hard. It is slightly tender to the touch. In this same area, a little in front of it I have a white spot and what looks like a little generalized swelling and redness in the floor of my mouth. I do not know whether to be concerned about the lump or not; before I noticed it I was having severe pain in that area but I had also been prodding the area a lot as well. I am terrified to see a doctor and have no real support system. Does this sound like a lump that could somehow be benign?


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base of tongue is not visible because it's back in the throat so it would not be that type of concern.

i'm a caregiver but i hear over and over here if something is around more than 2 weeks, you might want to get it checked out but it's not cancer until it's diagnosed as cancer.

for the record, my husband had a stage 4a back of the tongue cancer...not a good prognosis but over a year later, you would not know he had cancer. going through treatment was awful but he has survived.


Spouse of 58 yr old with BOT cancer
Stage 4a HPV16 positive
3 chemo treatments cisplantin
35 radiation treatments 7000 cGy
former smoker/chewed tobacco for 38 yrs.
1/2020 diagnosed with cancer near TMJ
4/2020 chemo 5 days every 2 weeks
6/2020 proton therapy
9/21/2020 cancer free

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