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 ...

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Mucoepidermoid carcinoma is the most common type of salivary gland cancer, but it’s rare. Only 1% of head and neck tumors are salivary gland cancer. Your salivary glands are small organs that make ...

Salivary gland tumors are rare forms of cancer. There are different forms of salivary gland cancers, each with unique features. Polymorphous low grade adenocarcinoma is one of the types of salivary ...

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 ...

Gene therapy can be performed safely in the human salivary gland, which could lead to new treatments for cancer patients suffering from xerostomia, according to scientists at the National Institute of ...