Novel Therapeutic Strategies for Malignant Salivary Gland Tumors: Lessons Learned from Breast Cancer

Figure 1

Histological comparison of malignant salivary and mammary gland tumors. Salivary glands and mammary glands are both tubuloacinar exocrine tissues sharing similar morphological features. It is, therefore, expected that the tumors originating from these two different glands would show similarities in their response to hormonal treatment.