Abstract
IntroductionThis article presents the case of a 26-year-old woman with tongue cancer. The median age at the diagnosis of the tongue’s cancer is 61 years. Only approximately 2% of patients are diagnosed before the age of 35.Case presentationOur patient survived acute myeloid leukemia (AML) before her second year. She had been having recurrent, poorly healing aphtae on the right side of the tongue for a period of months before the symptoms of the tongue cancer appeared. As a treatment a partial glossectomy was conducted on the right side and a neck dissection of levels I-III. Than a reconstruction of the tongue with a radialis free vascularised flap from left side was performed.DiscussionIt should be always looked for the causal factor in young patients with a neoplasm. There is strong evidence for second malignant neoplasms in survivors of childhood cancer.
Highlights
This article presents the case of a 26-year-old woman with tongue cancer
The lesion was painful when the patient moved her tongue or while eating. She further mentioned having recurrent, poorly healing aphtae on the right side of the tongue for a period of months before the current symptoms presented. Regarding her medical history she suffered of acute myeloid leukemia (AML) before the age of 2 and 8 years ago she had an incident of a cerebral venous sinus thrombosis
As the median age at diagnosis of tongue cancer is 61 years and only 2% of patients are diagnosed before the age of 35 these are rare occurrences and warrants further attention
Summary
The morbidity of malignant tumors in young patients is low (only approximately 2 percent of patients diagnosed with tongue cancer are below the age of 35). This was the case of this patient who suffered from an acute myeloid leukemia before she turned two. It is known that survivors of childhood cancer are at risk of developing a second malignant neoplasm
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