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 ...

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.

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 ...

At the end of 2023, Beth Riehle experienced a terrible migraine that “just seemed to never go away,” she recalls. The pain radiated into her ear and jaw. “I always felt like I wasn’t feeling good, but ...

Squamous cell carcinoma (SCC) is a common form of skin cancer that can affect the tongue. At stage 1, it is highly treatable. There may be a visible sore on the tongue, but not always. SCC is the most ...

This retrospective cohort study included 528 patients diagnosed between October 2009 and December 2021. Clinicopathological characteristics and treatments with or without PORT were analyzed for their ...

PITTSBURGH (KDKA) — When cancer threatened to silence a local musician, the surgery to save his life could also have ended his career. So two UPMC doctors worked to re-imagine his surgery to make sure ...

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 ...

Tongue cancer is a type of head and neck cancer that begins in the tongue, the muscular organ in your mouth that helps you speak, chew, and breathe. Your tongue extends from the middle of your neck to ...

For years, scientists have linked smoking with conditions affecting vital organs of the body like the lungs, liver, and heart, but this habit also affects other, less discussed organs, like the tongue ...