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 ...

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 ...

Therefore, learning more about this new gland could potentially benefit patients with head and neck cancer. When salivary glands undergo high-dose external-beam radiotherapy during treatment, it can ...

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 ...

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 ...

Polymorphous adenocarcinoma is a rare type of salivary gland cancer that usually occurs in small glands distributed throughout your mouth. The primary treatments are surgery and radiation therapy.

Adam Yauch, 47, best known as MCA and a founding member of the Beastie Boys rap group, died Friday after a three-year battle with salivary cancer, Rolling Stone magazine reports. In 2009, Yauch ...

Physicians in the Netherlands believe they have found a fourth pair of large salivary glands in the space where the nasal cavity meets the throat, according to a study in Radiotherapy and Oncology.

Acinic cell carcinoma is the third most common malignant form of salivary gland cancer. These tumors are similar to normal salivary gland tissue and occur most frequently in the parotid gland. Until ...

While studying PET/CT scans of prostate cancer patients using a tracer that binds strongly to salivary tissue, the researchers spotted it. They noticed two glowing areas on either side of the ...

When Michelle's doctor mentioned cancer, she thought it was a 'total overreaction' WHEN Michelle Willard felt a marble-sized lump behind her right ear last September, cancer was the furthest thing ...

At first, it was just a nagging toothache. That’s how it all began for Nicole Kowalski-Kleinsasser, a vibrant 25-year-old living in Nevada. Like most of us would, she thought it was probably something ...