What Are the Different Types of Oral Cancer Surgery? Oral cancer surgery refers to a group of procedures with different jobs: removing cancer, rebuilding areas affected by treatment, or restoring key functions like eating, speaking, or swallowing.

CHAPEL HILL, N.C. (Ivanhoe Newswire) – Cancer is a tough battle for anyone diagnosed with it. The treatments can be brutal—chemo, radiation, and surgery take a toll on the body, and depending on where the cancer is, living after cancer can be brutal.

She had to undergo a "life-changing surgery" where surgeons removed her tongue and reconstructed it using skin from her tattooed arm It took her months to relearn how to talk, she said, explaining that if she had gone to her doctor sooner, she might not ...

NEWNAN, Ga. - Becki Goggins of Montgomery, Alabama, first noticed something was off in spring 2022. "I thought I had bitten my tongue," Goggins says. "That's how this all started." At first, Goggins says she thought she may have had an infection in the ...

Shirley Chung of Top Chef fame is opening up about her tongue cancer diagnosis. (Photo illustration: Yahoo News; photos: Chfshirleychung via Instagram, Danny Moloshok/Reuters) A few months later, and a year after she first started experiencing symptoms ...