Is stage 2 tongue cancer serious?

In our lives, there are patients suffering from various cancers, and tongue cancer is also a type of cancer that scares everyone. Once it occurs, it is a disaster. In order to better treat tongue cancer, if we have tongue cancer, we must treat it early and not develop it to the late stage, where it cannot be treated and becomes more serious. Then let us understand whether stage II tongue cancer is serious?

The second stage of tongue cancer presents as local tissue thickening plaques, small nodules in the mucosa or submucosa, local erosion and fissures, and gradually form nodules and lumps. Ulcers with slightly raised edges may appear in the center of the mass, with slight pain or no conscious symptoms. As the disease progresses, the lesions infiltrate and ulcerate deep into the surrounding tissues, causing severe pain, bad breath, drooling, tongue movement disorders, and even affecting speech and swallowing. After the lesion ulcerates, local secondary infection occurs, with symptoms such as tissue necrosis, bleeding, and fever.

Common traditional treatments for tongue cancer include surgery, radiotherapy, and chemotherapy. Although radiotherapy and chemotherapy can effectively kill tumor cells, they will cause certain damage to normal cells in the patient's body and will also have certain side effects, such as hair loss, nausea and vomiting, loss of appetite and other adverse reactions. Surgical treatment is a conventional method of tumor treatment, which usually plays a good role in the early stages of the disease, but it is difficult to remove tiny lesions and the recurrence rate is very high. Biological immunotherapy mainly uses autoimmune cells to further fight cancer, so there is no pain or side effects to the patient during treatment, and it is highly safe. Biological immunotherapy can control the spread of cancer cells, stabilize the condition, improve the quality of life, rapidly improve the body's immunity and prolong the patient's survival time.

Patients with this disease should cooperate with the doctor's treatment in a timely manner, so that early detection and early treatment can be achieved, and more people can understand it, as well as do appropriate exercise and a reasonable diet.