Malignant tumors of salivary glands are uncommon: the world annual incidence rates are between 4 and <0.05 per 100,000. 1 In Europe SGC has an incidence of 1.2 per 100,000, according to Surveillance ...

Avoiding the contralateral submandibular gland during radiation therapy is feasible and safe with advanced stage, node positive head and neck cancers and base of tongue lesions, according to research.

For head and neck cancer patients undergoing radiation therapy, a reduction in the amount of radiation treatment volume to the submandibular (level IB) lymph nodes resulted in better patient-reported ...

This is a patient with surgical stage T1, clinical N0, low-grade parotid mucoepidermoid carcinoma. In the face of small, low-grade cancers, the risk of lymph node metastasis is very low, and the ...

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 ...

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 ...

Learn about the role of lymph nodes in your body, why they swell, the likely causes, and how it might relate to conditions ...

Hip hop fans everywhere are passing the mic in honor of Adam “MCA” Yauch, the founding member of the Beastie Boys who died Friday at age 47. The rapper died following a three-year battle with cancer ...

Beastie Boys member Adam Yauch, also known as MCA, died Friday after a long battle with salivary gland cancer, according to multiple reports. He was 47 years old. Yauch announced in 2009 that he had ...