After tongue cancer surgery, you may experience trouble swallowing and changes in your speech. Recovery time can vary depending on the type of surgery you have. Tongue cancer surgery is a procedure to ...

What Are the Different Types of Oral Cancer Surgery? Oral cancer surgery refers to a group of procedures with different jobs: removing cancer, rebuilding areas affected by treatment, or restoring key ...

CHAPEL HILL, N.C. (Ivanhoe Newswire) – Cancer is a tough battle for anyone diagnosed with it. The treatments can be brutal—chemo, radiation, and surgery take a toll on the body, and depending on where ...

Stage 2 oral cavity cancer involves tumors larger than 2 cm but not exceeding 4 cm, without lymph node or distant spread. Diagnosis includes physical exams, biopsies, imaging tests, and endoscopy to ...

A woman who lost her tongue to cancer had it reconstructed with flesh from her left arm – and has a tattoo on it. Jennifer Alexander, 52, was 37 when she was first diagnosed with stage one tongue ...

A four-time cancer survivor who had her tongue reconstructed using her tattooed skin from her arm has told Newsweek why she wears it like "a badge of honor." In August 2009, Jennifer Alexander from ...

After being left to make do without a full tongue, I was told I wouldn't need speech therapy and the NHS offered no psychological support.

Shirley Chung of Top Chef fame is opening up about her tongue cancer diagnosis. (Photo illustration: Yahoo News; photos: Chfshirleychung via Instagram, Danny Moloshok/Reuters) A few months later, and ...

Ryan Shinkle first noticed something was off at 25 years old Ksenija Stosic Photography |@ksenijastosicphotography; Courtesy of Ryan Shinkle Ryan Shinkle first noticed something was off with his ...