The survival time after tongue cancer surgery is related to many factors such as the patient’s age, resistance, mentality and malignancy of tongue cancer, which cannot be generalized. Tongue cancer is the most common oral tumor, and the treatment method is usually based on surgery. If it is early-stage tongue cancer, it usually requires simple surgery and local lymph node dissection, and the survival rate of patients can reach 80%-90% in more than 5 years. In case of mid- to late-stage tongue cancer, the tumor may have already invaded the base of the tongue, the root of the tongue or there are lymph node metastasis or distant metastasis, so the effect of surgery alone is not obvious and postoperative radiotherapy is required. In addition, tongue cancer patients should strengthen oral care after surgery to prevent oral infection; and smoking patients should quit smoking. Meanwhile, patients should promptly perform tongue function exercise after surgical wound healing.