What are the most common and effective treatment choices for primary tumors?
The most common, effective, documented and widely accepted conventional treatments for ACC are surgery and radiation, with one or both used depending upon the location of the tumor. In a majority of cases surgical removal of the tumor followed with radiation is the recommended treatment by many doctors. There are different views in the medical community about the best surgical techniques and best choices for radiation, but conventional wisdom still holds that removing the primary tumor is always the first choice to consider. A standing medical theorem is “Remove the cancer from the patient.” Because of the high propensity for perineural spread and the difficulty in achieving clean surgical margins, many doctors recommend a combination of surgical removal followed up with radiation treatment to the tumor region. Because ACC can spread microscopically through a region it can be difficult to detect, and the radiation treatment is an effective way of treating the area all around the origin
