Certain factors, such as tobacco use, alcohol consumption, and exposure, may increase a person’s risk of salivary gland cancer. Avoiding these factors may help prevent it. Salivary gland cancer is a ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The study, published online in JAMA Otolaryngology - Head & Neck Surgery, found a significant increase in the rate of head and neck cancers in individuals carrying a BRCA mutation. 5754 individuals ...

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 ...

Researchers found that certain drugs can change the fundamental makeup of cancer stem cells in mouse models of mucoepidermoid carcinoma -- a lethal form of salivary gland cancer that currently has no ...

At Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center, we surround you with experts who focus completely on cancer, day in and day out. A handful of people form the core of your care team. You have an oncologist who ...

At Huntsman Cancer Institute, you receive expert, highly specialized care for rare cancers of the salivary glands through our Head and Neck Cancers Disease Center. We combine surgical, medical, ...