Researchers believe they may have found a way to avoid damaging salivary glands during radiotherapy treatment for head and neck cancer -- a discovery that could improve the quality of life of 500,000 ...

According to new research, a thick neck can be an accurate predictor of cardiovascular risk, as well as indicate type 2 ...

I know Thyroid Cancer Awareness Month is nearly over, but I have a good excuse for being tardy. I was preoccupied with finding a lump on my thyroid, getting an ultrasound, getting a biopsy and then ...

For patients under 55 years old: Papillary thyroid cancer is classified as stage 2 if the cancer has spread to distant parts ...

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 ...

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 ...

Cancer treatment routinely involves taking out lymph nodes near the tumor in case they contain metastatic cancer cells. But new findings from a clinical trial show that immunotherapy can activate ...

Dear Dr. Gott: I am 77. Since age 12, I have two swollen glands in my neck, one on each side of the windpipe. They don't hurt, they just worry me. Am I overconcerned? Dear Reader: Yep. In spades.A non ...

Head and neck squamous cell carcinomas (HNSCC) are a group of cancers that affect cells in and around our mouth and nose. With 890,000 new cases and 450,000 deaths annually, HNSCC accounts for roughly ...

You may experience neck and jaw pain simultaneously for several reasons. Because the two are connected, what affects one also affects the other. Because the neck and jaw are connected by joints, it ...

A 13-year-old boy who was initially told that a lump in his neck was due to tonsillitis was later diagnosed with stage 4 ...