What is the most serious case of tongue cancer

It is precisely because they understand the serious impact of tongue cancer on the body that tongue cancer patients are terrified when they find out they have tongue cancer. In fact, the degree of harm to the body at different stages of tongue cancer is different. So what is the most serious case of tongue cancer? This is also the question that tongue cancer patients want to know most. Next, we will explain under what circumstances tongue cancer is most serious.

Tongue cancer is divided into three stages: early, middle, and late, with the late stage being the most serious. In the late stage, tongue cancer may directly exceed the midline or invade the floor of the mouth, or may infiltrate the lingual periosteum, bone plate, or bone of the mandible. Backward, it may extend to the root of the tongue or the anterior pharyngeal pillar and lateral wall of the pharynx. At this time, tongue movement may be severely restricted, fixed, and saliva may increase and overflow. Eating, swallowing, and speaking are all difficult. The pain is severe and may be reflected to half of the head. In the late stage, tongue cancer may metastasize to the lungs or distant metastases to other parts of the body.

1. Dangers of late-stage lung metastasis of tongue cancer: Lung metastasis is a common site of late-stage metastasis of tongue cancer. Patients often experience cough, blood in sputum, low fever, chest pain, shortness of breath and other hazards. If the tumor invades the right side of the mediastinum and compresses the superior vena cava, the jugular vein will initially become distended due to poor reflux, and eventually it will cause edema of the face and neck, which requires timely treatment. In addition, the hazards of late-stage lung metastasis of tongue cancer also include hoarseness and shortness of breath caused by lymph node metastasis compressing or invading the recurrent laryngeal nerve. With the infiltration of cancer cells, patients will experience severe pain in the later stages, as well as malignant effusion or pleural effusion, which can threaten the patient's life.

2. Harm of bone metastasis in advanced tongue cancer: The harm of advanced tongue cancer patients with bone metastasis is bone pain, such as pain in the limbs, pathological fractures, etc., among which pain is the most typical. As the cancer progresses, the pain of the patient will become more severe and even unbearable. Therefore, the treatment of advanced cancer should pay attention to timely relieving the patient's pain and improving the patient's quality of life.

3. Dangers of liver metastasis in late stage of tongue cancer: Some patients with late stage of tongue cancer also have liver metastasis. The corresponding common hazards include pain in the liver area, the most common of which is intermittent or continuous dull pain or distending pain, which can radiate to the right shoulder or right back; tumors growing to the right back can cause right waist pain. There are digestive tract hazards such as loss of appetite, indigestion, nausea, vomiting and diarrhea. Fatigue, weight loss, general weakness, and fever.