A 65-year-old man went through some serious stuff. 🙌 He had a mandibular rim resection and neck dissection to tackle squamous-cell carcinoma in the floor of his mouth and ventral tongue. 🦠 The pathologist’s notes spill the beans – the tumor was mainly hanging out in the mouth floor, measuring 28mm wide and 11mm deep. And guess what? Out of 48 lymph nodes from the neck dissection, 5 were playing host to some sneaky squamous-cell carcinoma guests, 2 even decided to venture out of their capsules! 🏃‍♂️💥 So, what’s the verdict?

So, in fancy doctor lingo aka Union for International Cancer Control, they call it pT2 when the tumor’s between 2 and 4cm big, and pN2b when you got a bunch of nodes involved but none are bigger than 6cm. 🤷‍♂️