CANCER OF THE TONGUE

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The object of this paper is to consider some of the truths emphasized in my experience with malignant and nonmalignant conditions of the tongue, especially the importance of early recognition and well directed treatment. No symptom or set of symptoms can be relied on always in making a diagnosis of cancer, and this is true of cancer of the tongue as well as malignancy in other parts of the body. As there is at present no infallible clinical test for cancer, except the dangerous one of allowing its course under observation to prove its character, a careful correlation of clinical and laboratory methods of diagnosis must be brought to bear on each case. Even the most experienced may make mistakes; but the aim must be toward the minimum of diagnostic errors. The onset of cancer of the tongue is insidious and, except for a small ulcer or nodule, which would

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