 [ Symptoms ] 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 will be asleep for it if this was cancer would not it have taken over already then again i guess it would depend on the type of cancer i have not 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 [ Disease ] 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