During a salivary gland biopsy, your surgeon removes a small amount of abnormal tissue from the gland where cancer is suspected. The tissue sample is then sent to a pathologist who examines it under a ...

This is usually temporary and lasts from a few weeks to a couple of months. Minor salivary gland cancer can occur in your lips, tongue, roof of the mouth (palate), inner cheek, throat, voice box ...

Researchers from the Netherlands Cancer Institute have identified a previously unknown organ in the human body — a new ...

The findings may have implications for radiotherapy, a cancer treatment that can cause damage to salivary glands and leave lasting complications. Doctors don’t regularly come across undiscovered bits ...

Indications for elective neck dissection (ELND) and its extent in N0-staged patients with parotid gland carcinoma are inconsistent. Therefore, a pilot study was performed to test the feasibility ...

Radioiodine treatment, often used in the treatment of thyroid cancer, is also associated with salivary gland obstruction due to concentration of radioiodine within the gland parenchyma. The most ...

The 26-year-old will undergo surgery on Friday to remove a growth on the roof of her mouth that came back positive for mucoepidermoid carcinoma, a type of salivary gland cancer. "Unfortunately I ...

Initially, not all salivary glands were thought to be impaired while those glands that demonstrated damage seemed to heal spontaneously without further subjective and objective symptomatology.

Discover how the medicinal orchid Dendrobium officinale (Tiepi Shihu) improves salivary gland function, reduces inflammation, ...