How long can you live with tongue cancer? What treatment methods should be used for tongue cancer?

How long a person can live with tongue cancer varies from person to person. Early-stage tongue cancer has a better prognosis, with a 5-year survival rate of over 80%. Late-stage tongue cancer has a shorter survival rate due to spread and metastasis.

Tongue cancer is a malignant tumor, and its survival period is related to the disease status. In the early stage of tongue cancer, since there is no spread or metastasis, surgical resection and local lymph node dissection have a good prognosis, which can reach 80%~90% five-year survival rate. However, when tongue cancer develops to the late stage, invades the root and base of the tongue, and has lymph node metastasis or distant metastasis, the prognosis is poor and the survival period is short.

The treatment of tongue cancer depends on the disease condition. Early stage tongue cancer can be treated with surgery to remove the tumor, combined with radiotherapy, which has a better effect. Late stage tongue cancer may require surgery to remove the entire tongue because it has spread or metastasized, combined with chemotherapy, traditional Chinese medicine treatment and other methods to improve survival.