Hosted on MSN

4,000-year-old bones reveal 'unprecedented' violence — tongue removal, cannibalism and evisceration in Bronze Age Britain

More than 4,000 years ago, nearly 40 people died extremely violent deaths in what is now England, with a modern analysis of their bones revealing scalping, tongue removal, decapitation, defleshing, ...
New York Post

Woman sheds 500 pounds after docs cut off cancerous tongue

Jen Costa thinks cancer saved her life. The 35-year-old Queens Village resident is calling her stage 4 metastatic oral cancer diagnosis a “blessing in disguise” after losing 500 pounds due to tongue ...
DrBicuspid

NY woman's oral cancer diagnosis led to 500-lb weight loss

A 35-year-old woman from New York City lost 500 lb following tongue removal surgery due to her stage 4 metastatic oral cancer diagnosis. The woman, who says she was addicted to food, believes her ...
Tulsa World

Understandable speech is possible after removal of tongue and voice box

A surgical incision between the trachea and esophagus (tracheo-esophageal puncture) following removal of the tongue and voice box provides effective speech communication for select head and neck ...