Food energy is potential energy that animals (including humans) derive from their food through the process of cellular respiration.
The three kinds of treatment used for tongue cancer are: 1  Surgery: removal of the cancerous tumor and surrounding tissue. 2  Radiotherapy: uses high-energy particles from radioactive elements to kill cancerous cells left behind after surgery.
Although tongue cancer is not the most treatable and survivable of diseases, as one can see from the data, the 5 year rates are relatively high, even among patients with metastatic disease: compare 30.6% with 5 year rates for highly deadly cancers, such as pancreatic cancer (1.8%).he rates of death from tongue cancer among men and women is extremely small, with about .9 men of all races per 100,000 and .4 of women of all races per 100,000 expected to die from the disease.