#27311 04-09-2005 01:51 PM | Joined: Mar 2005 Posts: 25 Contributing Member (25+ posts) | OP Contributing Member (25+ posts) Joined: Mar 2005 Posts: 25 | On 3/29/05, approximately 9 days after I had developed a red area that turned into an open ulcer like sore, I had a biopsy performed by an oral surgeon
On 3/31/05 the results came back negative and the area has healed up and is almost completely gone
If you read my previous posts, I had also had some sores prior to this that had developed on my inside lower gum line and they also went away
Today 4/9/05 I have a growth of tissue on the side of my tongue, way back in the back of my tongue
It is like a flap of skin, it is red and I can wiggle it back and forth. It is about 1cm, no pain and is not round, but flat and extends out
I have been examining my mouth myself all the time , as well as my dentist, doctor and oral surgeon and im pretty sure this is a new growth and was not there prior to today....
In the last month I have been to my regular doctor and an oral surgeon twice for the two different sores on my gum and on my tongue, I have been to a walk in clinic once as well as my dentist
I feel like im going crazy!
What does anyone make of all this?
Can a cancerous growth grow that quickly?
What should I do about this new growth?
Dino
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#27312 04-09-2005 03:24 PM | Joined: Nov 2002 Posts: 3,552 Patient Advocate (old timer, 2000 posts) | Patient Advocate (old timer, 2000 posts) Joined: Nov 2002 Posts: 3,552 | Dino, put your mind at ease and make an appointment with an ENT or head & neck surgeon (with previous cancer experience) and have cancer ruled out definitively. You could be looking at a normal piece of your anatomy and we can't tell you over the internet. None of the doctors you have seen thus far are head & neck or cancer specialists. For what it's worth, it doesn't seem like cancer to me but if it were me and knowing what I know now about cancer, I would see a specialist.
Gary Allsebrook *********************************** Dx 11/22/02, SCC, 6 x 3 cm Polypoid tumor, rt tonsil, Stage III/IVA, T3N0M0 G1/2 Tx 1/28/03 - 3/19/03, Cisplatin ct x2, IMRT, bilateral, with boost, x35(69.96Gy) ________________________________________________________ "You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes" (James 4:14 NIV)
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