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This section of our website is focused on treatment
options for Acinic Cell Carcinoma.
What we have attempted to do here is provide an overview of all reasonable
treatment options currently available. If this is your first visit, we
recommend first reading “(Our) Acinic Cell Carcinoma Treatment Options
Overview”, at the top of the “ACC
Treatment Overviews” page. That document briefly summarizes
more common treatments, as well as our current thinking on this subject.
We have divided this “Treatment Section” into a number of
sub-pages, as the subject headings above indicate. When you get to each
page, you will find a specific “Overview” of that treatment
option or subject, followed by a collection of citations/literature on
the subject. You may be able to get all you need to know from the “Overview”.
Or, you may want to read individual citations to learn more. If you are
not experienced at reading medical literature, we encourage you to visit
our “How to Use This Website”
page before reviewing too much of the literature.
Most of the journal article citations are displayed here as abstracts
(short summaries). Whenever possible, we have also included full text
versions. Sometimes you will find “text only” versions, as
well as a “full text with graphics” option, which includes
any photos, charts, illustrations, etc. The graphic versions may take
a little time to show up on your screen, depending on the speed of your
computer. Or you may have to wait for each page to load individually.
The “text only” versions will be quicker to view, while the
graphics versions will include more details. Please note that full text
articles or book excerpts are sometimes scanned-in photocopies. We apologize
if occasionally there are visual or text imperfections, or underlines
/highlighting from our own readings.
We also often provide direct links to internet sources. We offer these
in case you want to check out more material on a given subject at those
locations. Also, you may want to visit source websites to see if there
are newer updates of citations. Sometimes there are also instances where
the original versions of material are better presented on the source website.
In most cases we have tried to include the material here, firstly to save
you time and get you immediately to the information. More importantly,
it has been our experience that many links disappear or become unavailable
over time. And we don’t want you to miss out on getting the information.
In fact, if in searching our site you discover dead or inoperative links,
please let us know.
After each citation name and source, we generally give a short summary
of what the citation is about, to help you decide if it is something you
want to read or not. These short summaries also sometimes evaluate the
importance of the material.
Within the treatment sub-pages, we have included ACC-specific citation
sections, as well as ones on Salivary Gland Cancer treatment. In many
cases, ACC treatment data is incorporated into salivary gland cancer articles.
At other times, that is the only literature available, and we have to
take “salivary gland treatment results” as applicable to ACC
treatment, in the absence of more specific data.
We have attempted to include as much relevant (and current) information
on these pages as possible. But the nature of research (and the internet)
is such that it will probably not be a completely comprehensive collection
of all information that is out there and current at any given time. We
encourage you to search for more medical journal articles online (at places
like PubMed), visit your local medical library, and search other reputable
medical sources online. We have provided resource recommendations in our
“General Cancer and Medical Resources
and Links” page. (In your searching, if you DO find something
useful that you think would be important to add to our site, please send
an email to edgar@aciniccell.org.)
Before you go searching elsewhere, however; This section of our website
is NOT the only place to find treatment-related information at ACCIC.
You will likely find more information regarding treatment subjects, on
these other pages:
ACC Literature/Articles/Information
ACC Statistics
ACC Database
Treatment Centers and Doctors
ACC FAQs
Diagnostic Tests, Follow-Ups,
etc.
Patient “To-Do” List
In this “Treatment” section of
our website, we have decided to include a limited amount of general information
on treatments for Breast Cancer, Lung Cancer, Bone Cancer and Pancreatic
Cancer (in general, not ACC-specific). We include these sections because
of the rare cases of either primary or metastatic acinic cell carcinomas
in those areas. We have provided this (limited) information regarding
treatments of these other cancer types, as some of those treatments may
also be applicable to Acinic Cell Carcinoma disease in those locations.
Since there is MUCH more information on these cancers and treatments available
elsewhere, we encourage you to search other sources.
It also should be noted that the treatment-related pages on these cancers
are distinct from sections in our “ACC
Literature/Articles/Information” page devoted specifically to
Acinic Cell Carcinoma cancers of the Lung, Pancreas and Bone. If this
is your area of interest, you should examine pages in both sections of
our site.
Note to All Patients: We strongly encourage you to not base
your treatment decisions solely on what you find on this website. It is
an excellent place to start (if we may say so), and you will probably
learn more about this cancer at this one location than anywhere else.
BUT the information here is meant for educational purposes, and not as
a substitute for consulting with medical professionals. We do however
encourage you to take whatever you have learned here into discussions
with your doctor(s). Since this disease is so rare, most physicians are
not experienced with treating it, or knowledgeable about its characteristics.
And even those doctors that have had some experience treating ACC patients,
may be basing their treatment on hypotheses, rather than proven methods.
This is due to the fact that there is no “standard” curative
treatment, and relatively little clinical research data available. So
the information on this website may be very useful to your physicians
as well. We strongly encourage you to pass along what you learn here,
and tell your doctors to visit here themselves.
At the same time we want to remind readers
that ACCIC "overviews" included on the various treatment pages
have been written by an informed lay person, not a physician or other
health professional. These overviews should be considered as opinions,
and not as licensed medical advice.
To go to a specific subject area within
our entire “ACC Treatment” pages, click on the desired sub-page
name above (or below). To return to this page, hit your BACK button in
browser, or a BACK TO MAIN TREATMENT PAGE button.
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