Will tongue cancer affect life expectancy

No matter what kind of malignant tumor it is, it will always threaten the patient's life safety. Compared with tongue cancer patients, the complications of tongue cancer are very harmful. Therefore, many tongue cancer patients are afraid that their disease will not be treated well and will shorten their natural lifespan. So will tongue cancer affect life expectancy? Let us learn about it together.

Tongue cancer is a common malignant tumor in the oral and maxillofacial region. It is more common in men than in women. Most cases are squamous cell carcinomas, especially in the front 2/3 of the tongue. Adenocarcinomas are relatively rare and are mostly located at the root of the tongue. Lymphoepithelial carcinoma and undifferentiated carcinomas can also occur at the root of the tongue. Tongue cancer should be taken seriously, and timely hospital examination and treatment are of utmost importance.

Western medicine treatment:

1) Treatment of primary lesions Radiotherapy, simple surgical resection or cryosurgery can be considered for early-stage well-differentiated tongue cancer. Comprehensive treatment should be used for advanced tongue cancer, using radiotherapy plus surgery or triple (chemotherapy, surgery, radiotherapy) or quadruple (triple plus traditional Chinese medicine or immunotherapy) therapy according to different conditions.

1. Radiotherapy: It can be used as an adjuvant treatment before and after surgery for advanced tongue cancer.

2. Surgery: It is the main method for treating tongue cancer. For T1 cases, wedge-shaped resection more than 1 cm away from the lesion can be performed and sutured directly; for T2-T4 cases, hemiglossectomy or even total glossectomy should be performed. As an important organ for mastication and speech, reconstruction should be performed when more than 1/2 of the tongue is missing.

3. Chemotherapy: Preoperative induction chemotherapy can be performed for advanced cases. Chemotherapy has a good effect on tongue cancer and is expected to improve the patient's survival rate.

4. Cryotherapy: Cryotherapy can be considered for T1 and T2 tongue cancer.

(II) Treatment of metastatic lesions: Due to the high metastasis rate of tongue cancer, all cases except T1 should be considered for selective neck dissection at the same time; for patients with clinically positive lymph nodes, therapeutic neck dissection should be performed at the same time.

Traditional Chinese Medicine Treatment:

Traditional Chinese medicine focuses on whole body conditioning and focuses on treating the root cause: this is the advantage of traditional Chinese medicine in treating tongue cancer that is incomparable to traditional Chinese medicine and Western medicine. Professor Yuan Xifu, a famous Chinese medicine anti-cancer expert and the father of triple balance therapy, found in clinical practice that almost all cancer patients have three basic causes and pathogenesis: deficiency of vital energy, phlegm coagulation and blood stasis, and cancer toxin aggregation, which can be simply summarized as "deficiency, stasis, and toxicity" (triple balance); targeting deficiency, stasis, and toxicity, through traditional Chinese medicine conditioning, the purpose of strengthening the body, replenishing deficiency, eliminating phlegm and blood stasis, and attacking toxins and dispersing knots can be achieved. Ultimately, the patient's qi, blood, yin and yang are restored, and the human body reaches the fundamental balance in its natural state.

Whether it is traditional Chinese medicine, Western medicine, or a combination of Chinese and Western medicine, each has its own set of methods for treating tongue cancer, and the cure rate is good. Timely diagnosis and treatment of tongue cancer patients generally do not have a big impact on the patient's life span, but dietary care after surgery or during treatment is very critical. In order to truly recover and control the disease, you must follow the doctor's advice, observe the condition at all times, and choosing a regular tertiary hospital is also very important for treatment and recovery.