What is the adenoid carcinoma?
The cystic adenoid carcinoma is one of the rarest forms of cancer and it usually appears in secretor glands of the body, located in the head, neck, breast or skin. This is a subcategory of the adenocarcinoma, the generic name of all kind of cancers that appear in glandular tissues. There are a lot of types, depending on the site where it appears and the pathological report. It also ha some very weird manifestations and researchers weren’t able s far to establish a pattern: sometimes its evolution is rather slow and studies have shown that up to 40% of the patients can survive 15 years with an adenoid cystic cancer, while as in other cases, it acts extremely aggressive and the prognosis is less than 5 years. The percentage of people who get to live another 5 years is around 90%. What are the causes? Unfortunately, specialists don’t know yet what are neither the causes that can produce this kind of cancer nor the genetic material that can create a predisposition to the adenoid cancer. Si
