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 ...

Phase II study of anlotinib for treatment of advanced medullary thyroid carcinoma. This is an ASCO Meeting Abstract from the 2016 ASCO Annual Meeting I. This abstract does not include a full text ...

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 ...

In an interview with Medscape, Bhuvanesh Singh, MD, a surgical oncologist with the Head and Neck Service, Department of Surgery, and the director of the Laboratory of Epithelial Cancer Biology at ...

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 ...

An open-label, randomized phase III trial of gemcitabine and carboplatin (GC) followed by Epstein-Barr virus-specific autologous cytotoxic t lymphocytes (EBV-CTLs) versus GC as front-line therapy for ...

Carcinoma ex pleomorphic adenoma (CXPA) is a rare type of salivary gland cancer. Surgery and radiation therapy are the most common treatment options. CXPA develops from a noncancerous tumor called ...

Acinic cell carcinoma is a rare type of salivary gland cancer. It’s often treatable with surgery, but some people develop high-grade cancer that can spread to distant body parts. Acinic cell carcinoma ...

When salivary glands undergo high-dose external-beam radiotherapy during treatment, it can result in patients experiencing xerostomia and dysphagia. These conditions can lead to several problems, ...

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 ...