The parotid gland is located next to the earthe word parotid is derived from paraotic, which literally means around the earand patients with salivary cancer typically develop a painless swelling just below the ear, occasionally with facial nerve paralysis like Tony Gwynn had, which carries a very poor prognosis.1 It makes sense that Gwynn attributed his illness to chewing tobaccothe stuff is known to contain toxins that trigger cancer of the lip, tongue and mouthbut as any oncologist will tell you, chewing tobacco hasn't actually been linked to the type of cancer that killed Tony Gwynn.2 Loren Mell, chief of the head and neck radiation medicine service at the Moores Cancer Center in San Diegoand a consulting physician on the team that treated Gwynnrecently weighed in, dismissing Gwynn's assertion that chewing tobacco was to blame
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"So if you stop smoking at those points, people will live almost a normal life." CDC statistics show cigarettes are the leading cause of preventable deaths in the United States, responsible for more than 480,000 a year