Salivary cancer is a rare disease that has some of the greatest variances of all types of cancer. It wasn’t the first time Sharon Haber found a lump in her neck. She’d had them twice before – the last ...

Monomorphic adenomas refer to a group of rare tumors of the salivary gland that include basal cell adenomas and canalicular adenomas. Basal cell adenomas are observed predominantly in the parotid ...

Depending on the stage of your salivary gland tumor and the effects it’s having on your body, your physician may recommend a combination of treatment options. The right treatment for you also depends ...

Salivary gland cancer is a type of head and neck cancer. It grows in the salivary glands — organs on either side of your face that produce saliva, which helps you digest food. You have three pairs of ...

What goes on inside and between individual cells during the very earliest stages of tumor development? Single cell sequencing technologies and a mouse model have enabled researchers to comprehensively ...

The relative frequency of carcinoma and mixed tumors of the parotid and submaxillary salivary glands is unusually high in this series of cases as shown in Table 1. This is due to the fact that more ...

The risk of developing cancer in a salivary gland might be higher in people with mutations in either of two genes associated with breast and ovarian cancer. Salivary gland cancer is rare, but this new ...

Salivary gland cancer is a rare form of cancer caused when malignant tissues are formed in the salivary glands. The saliva formed by the salivary glands located on each side of the face is a ...

Radiotherapy uses high energy x-rays to kill cancer cells. You might have it on its own or after surgery for salivary gland cancer. External radiotherapy uses a machine outside the body to direct ...

Treatment involves excision of the mucocele with associated minor salivary glands to decrease the chance for recurrence. Occasionally, mucoceles will rupture spontaneously and heal without surgical ...