The incidence of benign tumor of any major salivary gland and that of the parotid salivary gland was higher in the CUD group than in the non-CUD group (0.08 vs 0.02% and 0.05 vs 0.01%, respectively).

Even (or especially) Tony Gwynn himself ascribed his salivary gland cancer to his prodigious chaw habit, carried on over decades in baseball. The parotid gland is a salivary gland located just in ...

Elevated relative risk of a benign parotid salivary gland tumor was also seen (relative risks, 5.16, 4.92, and 3.90 for any time, zero to less than five years, and five or more years, respectively).