Cancer of the salivary glands
By Ahmed Abu Radwan
God created human Almighty and make it in the best of molds, and the human body is made up of billions of cells and those cells grow and multiply and die and replace dead cells other new continuously and regularly as long as human alive.
The cancer cells proliferate often faster than normal cells and compete sometimes healthy cells to sources the body, which affects the body disorder and imbalance immune system, especially when you cancerous cells to destroy its contents of nucleic acids inside the cell, note that this DNA is responsible for cell division per and make it work properly for a normal life, and that this DNA is affected by a major impact on environmental factors, especially toxic materials in smoking and its derivatives, as well as the factor of heredity plays a big role.
A key function of the salivary glands moisten the mouth and help in the process of swallowing, and there are several types of cells in the salivary glands, and that each gland may be exposed to attack cancer cells, and often have cancer of the salivary glands benign and sometimes fierce.
Types of salivary glands:
1. Mandibular glands underneath Submandibular Glands located under the jaws.
2. Parotid Glands parotid glands located on both sides of the mouth in front of the ears.
3. Lingual glands underneath Sublingual Glands located under the tongue.
Factors that may help in the exposure of the salivary glands of cancer:
1. Heirlooms, a person may be exposed to cancer if one or both parents had been cancer in healthy people may be exposed to the disease in their lives.
2. Environment, climate, accommodation and environmental pollution exposure may help people to cancers.
3. The Altd Khin types and forms of the factors that help in human exposure to cancer.
4. Exposure to the following compounds:
A. Kerosene.
B. Silica dust.
C. Nickel.
5. Skin cancer.
6. Eating vegetables or fruits preserved in salt.
Symptoms:
1. The presence of pain in the location of the infected salivary gland.
2. Face is exposed to loss in the movement.
3. Obstruction and congestion in the nose and sinuses.
4. Change and unrest in consideration.
5. Happens neck tumor.
6. Painless tumor occurs in the inside of the mouth, especially in the lip and palate.
7. Inflation occurs in the side of the face.
8. Numbness in the affected area.
9. Sag on one side of the face sometimes. Facial palsy
Stages of cancer of the salivary glands:
The first phase: when the cancer is 2 cm in size and limited in the salivary gland.
Phase II: when cancer size from 2 - 4 cm did not Atantcher to neighboring tissue.
Third stage: when it exceeds the size of the cancer is larger than 4 cm, it may affect the nearby lymph nodes.
Stage IV: The cancer has spread to the nerves, bone, skin and lymph nodes and organs of the body.
Treatment:
Advisable to take a sample of tissue (biopsy) from the tumor and examined in laboratories specialized medical, and if it turns out the presence of the disease are advised to continue tests to make sure the body free of any spread of the disease to the rest of the body. And it is used optical and magnetic rays, CT scans to confirm the diagnosis, which show the full picture of what the inside of the body.
Often the cancer is removed surgically or use of chemotherapy and radiation as the case may be.
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