How to check if you suspect you have tongue cancer

How to check if you suspect you have tongue cancer? If you suspect you have tongue cancer, you can only be diagnosed through professional examination. This is an important step before treatment and a key step in medical treatment of diseases. Therefore, no matter what disease it is, you need to check it. So how to check if you suspect you have tongue cancer? What are the examination items?

What are the examination items for tongue cancer?

Examination items: blood routine, biopsy

1. Imaging examinations such as X-rays, tomography and CT are of diagnostic value in determining the extent of tongue cancer invasion.

2. Pathological cytology examination Exfoliative cytology examination confirms that it is cancer cell, which is helpful for the diagnosis of this disease. More than 95% of tongue cancers are squamous cell carcinomas, while adenocarcinomas from salivary glands are rare; and the proportion of adenocarcinomas in tongue root cancer can be as high as more than 30%. If the submandibular and cervical lymph nodes are swollen, a biopsy can be performed to confirm whether there is metastasis.

3. Cervical lymph node biopsy Tongue cancer often metastasizes to the cervical lymph nodes, especially under the digastric muscle and submandibular. The neck should be carefully examined and a cervical lymph node biopsy should be performed when necessary, which is of certain significance in the diagnosis and staging of the disease.

The occurrence of tongue cancer is often closely related to our living habits. Therefore, we should pay attention to reasonable nutrition in daily life, diversify our food as much as possible, eat more high-protein, multi-vitamin, low-animal fat, easily digestible food and fresh fruits and vegetables, do not eat stale, spoiled or irritating foods, eat less smoked, grilled, pickled, fried, and overly salty foods, and match coarse and fine grains with staple foods to ensure nutritional balance.