Defect Repair After Tongue Cancer Surgery

The tongue cancer is one of the more common oral malignant tumors, accounting for 32.3–50.6% of oral cancer. In China, the male to female prevalence ratio is 2:1; in foreign countries, the prevalence of tongue cancer is significantly greater in male than in female, and the male to female prevalence ratio is about 55:1. The disease mostly occurs in patients between 40 and 60 years, accounting for about 70%; the tongue cancer patients over 60 years of age are not uncommon; the tongue cancers in newborn babies and people under 20 years of age have been reported, but the tongue cancer patients under 40 years of age account for less than 3%.The patients with tongue cancers occurring in the lingual margin account for 60–70%, followed by the occurring places such as the ventral surface of the tongue, the tip of the tongue, and the dorsum of the tongue.