12/05/2022
MucoepidermoidCarcinoma|Saliva Cancer
It is the most common type of salivary gland tumors in adults.
📌Symptoms and symptoms:
What starts as a painless, slow-growing lump is solid and most clinically appear to be mixed tumors. It usually happens at the age of 30-50 years, and it is common among women
📌 Diagnosis:
When a biopsy is taken of this tumor, it features the emergence of sickle cell and peripheral cell.
In general, there is a good forecast for the development of first-degree tumors, unlike the bad prediction of advanced-gradetumors, however, recent research has found that the repetition of same tumors in their first-degree progression is also a bad prediction.
📌Treatment:
Surgery is the recommended treatment (local excrement). However, when the tumor is incompletely removed, post-surgical radiotherapy provides a localized ruling equivalent to complete removal.
Sometimes when surgery is not possible because of the spread of disease or if a patient is too weak to undergo surgery, or if surgery is refused, radiotherapy may come in handy. There was a report of a case where low-dose radiotherapy responded and controlled the disease for more than 4 ye
