[The cancer of parotid gland].

We have studied malign tumours of major and minor salivary glands, analyzing the possible etiologic factors in relation to their glandular histological structure (specially in parotid). Classifications have been reviewed, personal in 1971, Armed Forces Institute of Pathology in 1974 and the current one proposed by International Agency for Research on Cancer in 2004. Finally, we analyzed new typified tumours also the tumours with variable biological and clinical behaviour.