Patients who are diagnosed with tongue cancer need to be treated promptly through comprehensive methods such as surgical resection, radiotherapy and chemotherapy.
1. Surgical resection: before surgery, the stage of the patient should be determined, and the scope of resection should be determined according to the scope of disease lesions of the patient, and the primary tumor and metastatic lymph nodes should be removed by wedge resection and prophylactic cervical dissection, etc., and the normal tissues of the patient should be used to rebuild the basic shape of the tongue, so as to improve the quality of the patient’s daily life.
2. Radiation therapy: prophylactic irradiation of the whole cervical and supraclavicular lymph nodes can be performed before or after surgery to improve the treatment effect.
3. Chemotherapy: some advanced patients can be treated with local induction chemotherapy, which can control the disease process and prolong the survival time of patients through a variety of chemotherapeutic drugs, such as cisplatin, fluorouracil, paclitaxel, docetaxel, and so on.
It is recommended that patients diagnosed with tongue cancer should seek medical treatment in time and follow professional doctor’s advice to improve survival and prognosis.