Novel Therapeutic Strategies in Salivary Gland Tumor
A special issue of Cancers (ISSN 2072-6694). This special issue belongs to the section "Cancer Therapy".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 April 2025 | Viewed by 8659
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Interests: oral and maxillofacial surgery; plastic surgery; otolaryngology
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Interests: otolaryngology; plastic surgery; reconstructive surgery
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2. Biomedical Science Department, PhD School of Biomedical Science, University of Sassari, 07100 Sassari, Italy
Interests: oral and maxillofacial surgery; plastic surgery; otolaryngology
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Salivary gland tumors are rare, constituting 3–11% of all head and neck neoplasms and 0.2% of all malignant tumors. The likelihood that the tumor becomes malignant increases with a decreasing gland size, ranging from 15% to 30% for the parotid gland.
The clinical staging is often difficult, and for this reason, the Milan classification system for FNAC has been used; however, this tool has the disadvantage of ambiguous interpretation.
There has long been debate about which kind of diagnostic protocol to adopt, considering the costs of radiological investigations.
The traditional treatment of these lesions includes surgery, radiotherapy and chemotherapy. However, thanks to technological advances, endoscopic and robotic approaches are now being consolidated.
This Special Issue aims to discuss new therapeutic options for the treatment of salivary gland malignancies taking into account the diagnostic improvement obtained by the use of molecular pathological analysis methods, and the availability of targeted therapies that could ameliorate long-term outcomes.
Original research articles, case series, clinical trials and narrative and systematic reviews will all be considered. Articles dealing with any topic relevant to parotid gland surgery, including diagnosis, adjuvant treatment and molecular pathology, are welcome.
We look forward to receiving your contributions.
Dr. Giovanni Salzano
Dr. Arianna Di Stadio
Dr. Luigi Angelo Vaira
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- parotid gland
- parotid tumors
- facial nerve
- novel therapeutic options
- distant metastasis
- liquid biopsy
- prognostic factors
- parotid robotic surgery
- microRNA
- imaging
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