A biopsy-based approach can improve the diagnosis of burning mouth syndrome (BMS), according to a study in the Clinical Journal of Pain (July/August 2010, Vol. 26:6, pp. 528-532). Researchers from the ...

A 60-year-old Black man with hypertension and type 2 diabetes presents with a 1-month history of a yellowish, green furry plaque on his tongue. He states that he drinks several cups of coffee and eats ...

When Mari Henderson read a story about a woman the same age as her with tongue cancer, she asked for a biopsy. It helped her receive an early diagnosis. For several weeks, Mari Henderson felt a canker ...

Margot Blair is undergoing intensive treatment for stage three tongue cancer following her diagnosis in July Jacob Wackerhausen/Getty Margot Blair from Dumfries, Scotland, is receiving treatment for ...

When Ashwin Sabnekar first went to an oral surgeon to get his tongue checked after he found a strange sore on it, back in 2015, his biopsy concluded that he had a benign tumor, so he thought he had ...

The Full House alum shared that he was diagnosed with P16-positive oropharyngeal squamous cell carcinoma in October, seven months after he confirmed he was cancer-free following his battle with ...

A little over a year after being diagnosed with non-Hodgkin lymphoma, Dave Coulier announced exclusively on the TODAY show that he is undergoing treatment for an unrelated tongue cancer. The actor, ...

A woman’s mouth ulcers that would not heal for weeks and kept coming back turned out to be tongue cancer. Margot Blair, 62, a non-smoker, who didn’t drink much and was active, going to the gym five ...