oral cancer.

Oral cancer involves the lips or tongue, but often also involves the cheek lining, floor and roof of the mouth, and gums.
Most types of oral cancer are a type called squamous cell carcinomas, which spread very quickly.

To treat oral cancer, you can get small tumors removed, but often cases surgery and chemo therapy are needed in combination. If the cancer has spread to the lymph nodes, surgery is not performed.

symptoms include:
difficulty swallowing
difficulty speaking
pain when swallowing/speaking
trouble eating due to limited haw movements
considerate weight loss

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Expectations (prognosis)

Approximately half of people with oral cancer will live more than 5 years after they are diagnosed and treated. If the cancer is found early, before it has spread to other tissues, the cure rate is nearly 90%. However, more than half of oral cancers have already spread when the cancer is detected. Most have spread to the throat or neck.

About 1 in 4 persons with oral cancer die because of delayed diagnosis and treatment.

My grandmother was diagnosed with oral cancer last week. They aren't entirely sure what tissues it has spread to, they are pretty sure it has attacked her sinuses and her throat. 

I know you think, it's just oral cancer, it's treatable. But yet. She is a 70+ year old woman, who is nearly my size. 5'3 at most. She's frail. I'm just worried for her! Fight like a girl nanna. Here's to many more years, barking grandma! <3