Or you may go home and return the following day for your surgery. Having a sentinel lymph node biopsy Your surgeon removes the sentinel lymph nodes during your operation to remove the mouth cancer.

Unfortunately, the exploratory operation discovered her cancer had spread to the bone, with Ms Horsley looking at extensive surgery, reconstruction of the lower jaw and possibly radiotherapy as well.

Richard Wong leads a team of world-renowned head and neck surgeons. At MSK, we are focused on innovative approaches to removing cancer completely while preserving quality of life. If you have a head ...

it's found in the mouth when it becomes a lump and presses against the face. Dogs with this kind of cancer that have surgery usually only survive 3 to 18 months, depending on how advanced the ...

Minor salivary gland cancer can occur in your lips, tongue, roof of the mouth (palate), inner cheek, throat, voice box (larynx), nose, and sinuses. Your surgeon usually removes some surrounding tissue ...

"I had never heard of mouth cancer, so it was quite upsetting and just a bit of a shock," Sinead says. She had smoked 15 cigarettes a day for about 20 years. During 10 hours of surgery, half of ...