Well I just had the second tongue surgery December 6 so hopefully it is from an infection or something. If not the gland is very new to being swollen because I just saw my Dr December 15 for follow up from the surgery. Also the pathology report showed me evidence of lymph channel involvement after my surgery. If it does turn out to be cancer it would mean that I had a level one tongue cancer only 3 mm and no lymph channel involvement that would have to have somehow gotten to the lymph node wo showing it had invaded the channel. I also had a clean pet scan but the Dr said if it was less than 7 mm it doesn’t show up. Also I was living my life normally recently and would not have caught this at all had I not been going in for my first radiation treatment. Maybe all tongue cancer surgeries should do a biopsy of some lymph nodes to be sure because this would be very hard to understand how it got through all of these pre cursors. If it is in the lymph nodes I have to decide whether to go to t to the original surgeon or one at Sloan Kettering what are your thoughts? The Dr at John’s Hopkins said I should stick with same surgeon. I certainly knowing what I know now would have insisted on a node biopsy after the surgery