My husband is an alcoholic and smokes up to 3 packs of cigarettes a day. He has just had a large cancerous tumour removed from his mouth as well as part of his tongue and lymph nodes which the surgeon said looked cancerous although he is awaiting pathology reports. He has been very confused since the opertion nearly three weeks ago and had a CT scan today to see if the cancer has spread. Since this was a large tumour does this mean that he might not survive for long after his treatment?
Hi, dairy have gone through your question. I can understand your concern. Treatment and prognosis depends on many factors.  Size is not the only parameters that he had good prognosis or bad.  It depends on stage, grade and spread of cancer.  If your tongue cancer has distant metastasis then it has poor prognosis.  If no distant spread and margins are clear then it is a good prognosis.  Further treatment is chemotherapy according to need. Hope I have answered your question, if you have doubt then I will be happy to answer. Thanks for using Chat Doctor. Wish you a very good health.