From oral cancers ,that arise from aerodigestive tract 90% are squamous cell carcinoma,frequently tongue is invoved. tongue is very mobile organ,fill the whole oral cavity at rest.its main functions are taste,mastication,deglutation and speech,scc from tongue seen in all over world ,but its more common in india because of very known reasons,like smoking causes 25 times higher chances alcohal consumption betal nut chewing or gutka or pan etc poor dental hygene malnutrition viral infection like hpv,hs virus,hiv or epstein barr virus irradian or chemical exposure in 30% of cases when we diagnose ca tongue, one another primary lurking somewhere in aerodigestive tract.
mangements includes surgery for smaller lesions its curative like t1 or t2 for larger lesion and metastasis radiotherpy with or without chemotherapy chemotherapy includes 5fu,cisplatin,methotraxate,docetaxel and pacitaxel. is…
