Doctors don’t regularly come across undiscovered bits of human anatomy, but a team of physicians ... (NCI), was probing for damage to salivary glands after radiotherapy for cancer in the head, neck, ...

That day at the wheel, I realized that it was not unlike the human neck. Though only a small portion of the human body – about 1% by surface area – our necks have an outsize influence on our ...

Administration of radiotherapy to patients with head and neck cancer often causes damage to the parotid glands, resulting in a marked decrease in saliva production, and associated discomfort.

we investigated the effect of TGFβ ligands on the primary human sebocytes we established using a novel culture system and skin samples from pediatric donors.