… Carcinomas of the salivary gland are rare, accounting for only 3–5% of head and neck
cancers and for 0.3% of all human cancers 1, 2. Primary salivary gland carcinomas (SGC) are a …

… underlying irradiation damage to salivary gland tissue, the … of salivary gland hypofunction
and xerostomia. These include ways to (1) prevent or minimize radiation injury of salivary gland …

… structures of salivary glands. I review here approaches to restoring salivary gland function
after IR with emphasis on the development and functional morphology of salivary glands as …

… Between 1939 and 1982, we treated 474 patients with newly diagnosed, locally confined
major salivary gland cancers. The patients had no evidence of distant metastases, as …

… head and neck cancer, we found that the radiation dose to a subvolume of the salivary glands
in … resided and from which the excretory duct emerged predicted parotid gland dysfunction. …

… of the neck in cancers of the major salivary glands and the thyroid and parathyroid glands. …
is uncommon in malignancy of the salivary glands, with :15% of parotid cancers and 8–10% of …

… All cases were presented to the authors' interdisciplinary board for head and neck cancers.
After interdisciplinary board discussion, primary tumor surgery and subsequent ND were …

… Decreased saliva production is accompanied by a fall in pH … in salivary gland function that
take place during and after radical radiotherapy given in the treatment of head and neck cancer…

… salivary glands … salivary gland function in head and neck cancer patients treated with IMRT,
and the technical aspects of IMRT applied. The results suggest that the major salivary gland …

… is no study evaluating residual salivary gland function after neck dissection for HNC, … in
salivary glands and correlate it with salivary flow rates in HNC patients with submandibular gland …