if you do not use tobacco tongue cancer would certainly be less-likely. if you had this same lesion (unchanged) for ten years then this would not be consisent with a malignant oral lesion. the reason why your doctors are biopsing this lesion is to find out what it is. soon you will have that definitive answer and also will no longer have this lesion to worry about/
question about possible oral cancer (tongue). i have a spot on my tongue that has been causing me pain for approx. 10 yrs. have seen ents over the years. now i have to get a biopsy. the doctor is going to remove a fairly large sample (around 1''). i'll be asleep for it. if this was cancer wouldn't it have taken over already? then again i guess it would depend on the type of cancer. i haven't used tobacco. i have noticed that this hurts more at certain times of the month (i am a woman). the doctors have no answer for this.