Salivary Gland Cancer
Head and Neck Program
Stage II Salivary Gland Cancer
Treatment depends on whether the cancer is low grade (slow growing) or high
grade (fast growing).
If the cancer is low grade, treatment may be one of the following:
Surgery possibly followed by radiation therapy.
Chemotherapy (if surgery or radiation is refused or if the cancer does not
respond to surgery or radiation therapy).
If the cancer is high grade, treatment may be one of the following:
Surgery.
Surgery followed by radiation therapy.
Specialized radiation therapy.
A clinical trial of radiation therapy, with or without radiosensitizationdrugs (drugs given with radiation
to make the cancer cells more sensitive to the radiation), or new
chemotherapy drugs.