Salivary gland cancer

Hi Shell. If you put Salivary Gland Cancer into the search box at the top and select the head and neck option it will give you some links to previous posts. It's a bit hit and miss as folk talk about salivary glands in general. This is a link to what you get for Parotid Salivary Gland. PAROTID

Hazel has given you some excellent advice on your other thread. Waiting is a horrid time and the temptation to explore ALL the things it might be is so overriding that it's easy to drive yourself nuts. Keep yourself busy and try to stay calm. If you are having trouble sleeping get some mild sleeping tablets from your GP, they might help. rest assured that your team will be doing the utmost to get to the bottom of what the problem is and to treat accordingly. Hang on in there.

Thank you x

Hello Shellw, i had one of my big saliva glands removed during my first operation as it was deemed too risky to leave, i still have saliva glands that work well enough but need to drink more water etc to compensate. Waking up is always followed by a good drink as my mouth does dry out a lot more, most of the time the other saliva glads will adjust or compensate and produce more saliva. As i say this was all linked to my first diagnosis of mouth cancer. Wishing you all the best,take care.

                                                                        Chris x

I had this had my patroid gland removed along with loads of nymph nodes successfully all cancer removed but it had already spread to bones in spine and pelvis