Distant metastasis of salivary gland cancer: Incidence, management, and outcomes

• Published in: Cancer Vol. 126; no. 10; pp. 2153 - 2162
• Main Authors: Mimica, Ximena, McGill, Marlena, Hay, Ashley, Karassawa Zanoni, Daniella, Shah, Jatin P., Wong, Richard J., Ho, Alan, Cohen, Marc A., Patel, Snehal G., Ganly, Ian
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States Wiley Subscription Services, Inc 15.05.2020
• Subjects: Adolescent; Adult; Aged; Aged, 80 and over; Cancer; Female; Health services; Histology; Humans; Incidence; Male; Metastases; Metastasis; Middle Aged; Neoplasm Metastasis - diagnosis; Neoplasm Metastasis - pathology; Neoplasm Staging; Oncology; Oral cancer; Patients; Risk Factors; Salivary gland; salivary gland cancer; Salivary Gland Neoplasms - mortality; Salivary Gland Neoplasms - pathology; Salivary Gland Neoplasms - surgery; Salivary glands; Sex Characteristics; surgery; Survival; Survival Analysis; Tumors; Young Adult; salivary gland cancer; metastasis; survival; surgery

Background Distant metastases (DMs) are the primary cause of treatment failure in patients with salivary gland carcinoma. There is no consensus on the standard treatment. Methods Patients with DMs were identified from an institutional database of 884 patients with salivary gland cancer who underwent...