After a ton of tests, I was scheduled for surgery that coming July. Surgeons removed the growth on my tongue, along with ...

“By my third surgery, I was angry, because I didn’t want to be the poster child for cancer. “I decided to do things differently, and opted to have half of my tongue cut out and reconstructed.

Sonya Sotinsky recorded herself talking and reading books to preserve a critical element of her personality: her voice. After ...

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. One such cancer is tongue cancer.

A man in his early 40s was diagnosed with tongue cancer. The cancer recurred after initial treatment. Doctors used precision ...

But Chung said she “broke down crying” after her doctor at Cedars Sinai called her in early June to discuss treatment plans. “All I heard was ‘option 1, surgery [which meant] 100% removal of your ...

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. One such cancer is tongue cancer.

A mother of two from Coto De Caza, Calif., reflects on her unexpected tongue cancer diagnosis and the challenges ...

Among oral cancers, tongue cancer (TC) is the most common type and often carries a poor prognosis. Surgery combined with chemoradiotherapy is one of the main lines of treatment for high-risk cases ...

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 ...

Shirley Chung revealed that she was diagnosed with stage 4 tongue cancer. On July 26, the Top Chef alum, 47, shared the emotional health update on Instagram, explaining that her diagnosis came ...