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Woman lost part of tongue to cancer, replaced it with thigh tissue - Insider
Jan 21, 2022 1 min, 3 secs

Cameron Newsom, who goes by Camiflauge on TikTok, needed part of her tongue removed to fight a rare cancer in 2013.

It's since been replaced with tissue from her thigh, which helps her talk and keep from choking, but still has drawbacks like slowing her eating, inhibiting "a really good kiss," and slurring her speech, she said on TikTok. .

Newsom's first symptom was a painless white spot on her tongue, which turned up negative for cancer in a biopsy.

After the therapy shrunk her tumor enough, Newson flew to MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, Texas, for a nine-and-a-half-hour surgery to remove the left side of her tongue and replace it with thigh tissue. .

She said the thigh half of her tongue feels like "having a dead arm or dead leg all the time — it is constantly tingly and numb." 

"2013 was the toughest year of my life," she said, "and I couldn't have done it without the support of my amazing [husband] and the rest of my family."

In a 10-hour surgery, doctors removed a third of her tongue and replaced it with thigh tissue

As part of her treatment, that part of her tongue was removed in a 12-hour surgery and replaced with skin and fat from her thigh

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