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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 ...

Samsung Medical Center announced on November 10 that its Head and Neck Cancer Center has become the first in Korea to achieve ...

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 ...

The most common sign of a salivary gland tumor is a painless salivary lump or mass. A lump in the area of the ear, cheek, jaw, lip, or inside the mouth mandates consultation with a doctor. Another ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...