Is tongue shedding cancer?

Tongue coating shedding is not cancer need to be determined by other clinical symptoms, physical examination, pathological examination and other aspects.

Cancer is the body cells affected by adverse factors mutation formed by space-occupying lesions, tongue cancer patients due to local mucosa by cancer cell infiltration, tongue coating shedding symptoms. If there is no ulcer, tongue pain, chewing difficulties and other symptoms or physical examination does not find the presence of tongue mass, can initially rule out the possibility of cancer, mostly caused by tongue inflammation, map tongue and other diseases. However, if the above clinical symptoms exist and physical examination shows that there is a mass in the tongue, pathological examination is needed to confirm the diagnosis. If there is obvious heteromorphic change in the lesion tissue, it can be diagnosed as cancer.

Cancer patients should be treated surgically in time when they meet the surgical indications, and combined with radiotherapy, chemotherapy and other comprehensive treatments to further kill cancer cells, which can improve the prognosis of the disease.