Nicole Gibbs shared some very tough news with her followers on Monday: a cancer diagnosis. The 26-year-old will undergo surgery on Friday to remove a growth on the roof of her mouth that came back ...

Before surgery, you have tests to check your fitness and you meet members of your treatment team. You usually go into hospital on the morning of your operation. The length of your hospital stay ...

Your nurse will go through a series of questions on a checklist to make sure you are ready for surgery. They ask you to: If you have false teeth you can usually keep them in until you get to the ...

Most of us take speaking and singing for granted. A healthy voice is critical for good communication and is often the source our livelihood and happiness. But many people struggle with their voice.

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 ...

Salivary gland malignancies are rare tumors that comprise multiple histologic entities with diverse clinical behavior. Mucoepidermoid carcinoma is the most frequent primary salivary malignancy, ...

Removing the stones without causing injury to the salivary duct was a huge challenge according to the doctors. Doctors removed 53 stones from a 66-year-old Iraqi woman’s glands in an operation at a ...

Salivary glands make and release saliva that lubricates your mouth and throat, starts the digestion of your food, and coats the lining of the upper airway to help protect you from infections. Tumors, ...

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 ...