Actress Janice Koh shares her journey battling tongue cancer, receives supportive messages from netizens

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She shared in a recent interview that she's had more than half of her tongue removed and she’s currently “in speech therapy and [her speech] is slowly improving over time”.

– four months after her initial diagnosis. In the Vogue Singapore interview, she expanded on the events that led to her diagnosis, sharing that she “first discovered an ulcer on [her] tongue and didn’t “think very much about [it]”. After realising that the ulcer persisted for multiple weeks, she visited a general practitioner, followed by her dentist who told her “to see an oral surgeon”.“My diagnosis filled me with regret.

Koh seems to be accepting the good with the bad these days, saying “It’s a small price to pay for being well. Even though there is a part of me that mourns and grieves for my voice, I’m learning to accept that there is a limit to how perfect my speech will be. Being able to accept that, to me, is part of the emotional recovery from the trauma of the illness.”

 

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