After tongue cancer surgery, you need to go to stomatology or oncology department for rechecking, according to the relevant examination to determine the recovery of your body and whether the tongue cancer has recurred. If the cancer recurs, you need to follow the doctor’s instruction to carry out surgery, radiotherapy and other treatments as soon as possible.
Tongue cancer lesions are located in the oral cavity, and cancer belongs to the category of tumor, therefore, you can choose stomatology or oncology for review. During the review, doctors will use local diagnosis and palpation to observe whether there are any abnormalities in the patient’s oral cavity. Imaging examinations such as ultrasound and CT are also needed to observe the patient’s physical recovery, and whether there are any residual cancer cells or other abnormal lesions in the body.
If there is a high suspicion of tumor recurrence through imaging examination, local puncture biopsy and tumor marker examination are needed to diagnose whether tongue cancer is recurrent. If it is recurrence, surgery, radiotherapy, chemotherapy and other treatments need to be carried out as soon as possible according to medical advice to prevent the condition from worsening.
It is recommended that patients should do good wound care after tongue cancer surgery. If there are abnormal symptoms such as fever and pus in the wound after surgery, patients should consult doctor as soon as possible.