How long can you live after tongue cancer surgery? Multiple factors affect it

How long a patient can live after tongue cancer surgery is related to the patient's age, mentality, severity of the disease, postoperative care, etc. Early surgical treatment of tongue cancer, maintaining an optimistic attitude, and avoiding adverse stimulation can lead to 10 years or even longer survival; mid-to-late stage tongue cancer, postoperative psychological stress, etc., survival may be 1-2 years, or even shorter.

Frequent smoking, drinking, residual roots or crowns of teeth, and long-term stimulation of the tongue may induce tongue cancer. It is best to choose surgery when there are surgical indications. However, with the current medical level, cancer has not been completely defeated, so people often talk about cancer with fear. Even if they choose surgery to remove the cancerous lesions in the early stages of cancer, they are always worried that death will come at any time. So, how long can you live after tongue cancer surgery?

1. How long can you live after tongue cancer surgery?

How long you can live after tongue cancer surgery varies from person to person, and it has something to do with the patient's age, mentality, severity of the disease, postoperative care, etc. If tongue cancer is actively operated on in the early stage of the disease, the lesion is completely removed, and you pay attention to avoiding adverse stimulation in normal times, you can generally live for 10 years, or even 20 or 30 years; if the disease develops to the middle and late stages, even after surgery, the survival time will be shorter, maybe only 1 to 2 years; if tongue cancer is in the late stage and you don't pay attention to postoperative care, you may not live more than 1 year.

2. Factors Affecting Survival after Tongue Cancer Surgery

1. Related to the patient's age

The length of survival after tongue cancer surgery is related to the patient's age. Generally, the younger the patient is, the better the body's ability to resist disease, and the longer the patient will survive after tongue cancer surgery; the older the patient is, the worse the physical fitness, and the trauma of the surgery plus the influence of cancer cells will affect the survival period, which will be shorter.

2. It is related to the patient’s mentality

If you can face tongue cancer positively and optimistically, your survival period after surgery will be greatly extended; if you are in fear after tongue cancer surgery and the psychological pressure is particularly great, it will accelerate the speed of death and your survival period will often be shorter.

3. Related to the severity of the disease

The milder the condition, the earlier the treatment and the longer the survival period. If the disease has developed to the late stage and treatment is not initiated until the cancer cells have spread, the survival period will often be greatly shortened.

4. Related to postoperative care

After tongue cancer surgery, you also need to actively change your eating habits, stop smoking and drinking, reduce stimulation, and avoid postoperative recurrence. The survival period will generally be longer. If you do not pay attention to postoperative care, it may cause tongue cancer to recur, and the general survival time after surgery will be shortened.