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Does it tell me anything if the tongue biopsy the dr takes is a cut out piece from my tongue vs just aspiration? can you distinguish cancer on tongue from a bite mark?

Q: does it tell me anything if the tongue biopsy the dr takes is a cut out piece from my tongue vs just aspiration? can you distinguish cancer on tongue from a bite mark?

: Definitive diagnosis of cancer requires removing all or part of the tissue suspected to be cancer and submitting it to a pathologist for examination. Cancer of tongue cannot be diagnosed from a bite mark.

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Definitive diagnosis of cancer requires removing all or part of the tissue suspected to be cancer and submitting it to a pathologist for examination. Cancer of tongue cannot be diagnosed from a bite mark.

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Answered 11/27/2022

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A member asked:

Does it tell me anything if the tongue biopsy the dr takes is a cut out piece from my tongue vs just aspiration? can you distinguish cancer on tongue from a bite mark?

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Dr. Gurmukh Singh answered

Dr Seibert agreed

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