First, your care team will take a complete medical history. They will want to know about any risk factors you may have, such as prior cancer treatments or exposure to radiation in the workplace. You ...

MSK’s salivary gland tumor experts, including surgeon Bhuvanesh Singh (center), are among the most experienced in the nation. For many people with salivary gland tumors, surgery performed by an expert ...

The major salivary glands produce approximately one quart of saliva each day, which in turn plays a crucial role in food digestion, swallowing, speech, and protection of teeth against bacteria and ...

Researchers from the Netherlands Cancer Institute have identified a previously unknown organ in the human body — a new salivary gland. This surprising find was made accidentally during cancer ...

The patients studied on the medical wards of the Boston City Hospital had been admitted primarily for treatment of severe liver disease or the complications of alcoholism. One patient was admitted ...

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.