Head & Neck Cancers | Clinical

July 22, 2021

Improved survival outcomes were reported with the addition of nivolumab to either ipilimumab or chemo-therapy vs chemotherapy alone in the frontline treatment of patients with unresectable advanced or meta-static esophageal squamous cell carcinoma.

June 27, 2021

The 2021 American Thyroid Association Guidelines for Management of Patients with Anaplastic Thyroid Cancer expand on discussions about treatment goals and palliative care.

June 26, 2021

The potential benefit of avelumab in the subgroup of patients with high PD-L1 expression in JAVELIN HEAD AND NECK 100 provides a basis for further investigation and suggests a potential role for immune checkpoint inhibitors for locally advanced HNSCC.

June 04, 2021

The phase 2 VERSATILE-002 trial of PDS0101 in combination with pembrolizumab for patients with advanced head and neck cancer has expanded to include those who have progressed on prior treatment with checkpoint inhibitors.

June 03, 2021

Compared to chemotherapy alone, the addition of the immunotherapy agent toripalimab to gemcitabine plus cisplatin significantly improved progression-free survival in the frontline treatment of patients with recurrent or metastatic nasopharyngeal carcinoma.

May 24, 2021

A biologic license application has been submitted to the FDA for the PD-1 monoclonal antibody drug penpulimab for the third-line treatment of metastatic nasopharyngeal carcinoma.

May 21, 2021

Tislelizumab, an anti-PD-1 antibody combined with gemcitabine and cisplatin demonstrated improvement in progression-free survival (PFS) compared with chemotherapy as first-line treatment of patients with recurrent or metastatic nasopharyngeal cancer, meeting the primary end point of the phase 3 RATIONALE 309 trial, according to a press release by BeiGene, Ltd.

May 06, 2021

Avelumab was explored in a clinical trial for the treatment of locally advanced head and neck squamous cell carcinoma, but more research is needed to position the agent and other checkpoint inhibitors in the treatment landscape, experts say.

April 27, 2021

Results from the phase 2 study of farnesyltransferase inhibitor tipifarnib showed significant responses in patients with recurrent and/or metastatic head and neck squamous cell carcinoma and demonstrated that variant alle frequency could be a potential biomarker in this patient population.

April 26, 2021

During a virtual Targeted Oncology Case-Based Roundtable event, Lori Wirth, MD, discussed the treatment patients with radioiodine-refractory differentiated thyroid cancer with a group of peers.