HEAD & NECK CANCERS

Julie R. Brahmer, MD, from Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center, discusses the outlook for immunotherapies in cancer care.

Hyperfractionated radiotherapy demonstrated a superior improvement in overall survival rates compared to standard and accelerated radiotherapy when administered without concomitant chemotherapy in patients with locally advanced HNSCC.

Across several studies, the BRAFV600E mutation has been reported to be associated with several negative prognostic clinicopathologic features as well as an increase in overall mortality in patients with papillary thyroid carcinoma (PTC).

Over the past two decades, there has been a shift away from indiscriminate cell-killing by anticancer agents toward the development of more specific drugs that target key aspects of cancer cell biology.

Sorafenib (Nexavar) has been granted a priority review designation by the FDA for locally advanced or metastatic radioactive iodine (RAI)-refractory differentiated thyroid cancer.

Paul A. Bunn, Jr, MD, from the University of Colorado, discusses afatinib for patients with activating epidermal growth factor receptor mutation.

Carol Aghajanian, MD, from the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, discusses the difficulties with a gold standard clinical trial endpoint in ovarian cancer.

Renier J. Brentjens, MD, PhD, from Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, discusses the potential efficacy of CAR-modified T cells for the treatment of solid tumors.

Andrew T. Parsa MD, PhD, from the University of California, San Francisco, describes the administration of the prophage G-200 for recurrent glioblastoma multiforme.

Cameron J. Turtle, MD, PhD, from the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, discusses the design of a chimeric antigen receptor (CAR).

Antoni Ribas, MD, PhD, the director of the Tumor Immunology Program Area at UCLA's Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center, discusses PD-1 and PD-L1 in various cancers.

Richard Finn, MD, from the Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center, UCLA, describes the development of cyclin-dependent kinases (CDKs) for the treatment of cancer.

Researchers at the NCI have developed the most comprehensive analysis of coding variants in the most frequently studied human tumor cell lines in cancer research.

Head and neck squamous cell carcinomas have different patterns of genetic alterations, some of which may be druggable, according to a study by The Cancer Genome Atlas.