Improving head and neck cancer therapies by immunomodulation of the tumour microenvironment

AT Ruffin, H Li, L Vujanovic, DP Zandberg… - Nature Reviews …, 2023 - nature.com
Targeted immunotherapy has improved patient survival in head and neck squamous cell
carcinoma (HNSCC), but less than 20% of patients produce a durable response to these …

[HTML][HTML] Targeted therapy for head and neck cancer: Signaling pathways and clinical studies

Q Li, Y Tie, A Alu, X Ma, H Shi - Signal Transduction and Targeted …, 2023 - nature.com
Head and neck cancer (HNC) is malignant, genetically complex and difficult to treat and is
the sixth most frequent cancer, with tobacco, alcohol and human papillomavirus being major …

[HTML][HTML] Natural killer cell-related prognosis signature characterizes immune landscape and predicts prognosis of HNSCC

H Chi, X Xie, Y Yan, G Peng, DF Strohmer… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Background: Head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (HNSCC), the most common head
and neck cancer, is highly aggressive and heterogeneous, resulting in variable prognoses …

[HTML][HTML] Camrelizumab combined with apatinib in patients with first-line platinum-resistant or PD-1 inhibitor resistant recurrent/metastatic nasopharyngeal carcinoma …

L Yuan, GD Jia, XF Lv, SY Xie, SS Guo, DF Lin… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Immunotherapy combined with antiangiogenic targeted therapy has improved the treatment
of certain solid tumors, but effective regimens remain elusive for refractory …

Novel systemic treatment modalities including immunotherapy and molecular targeted therapy for recurrent and metastatic head and neck squamous cell carcinoma

S Ghosh, PA Shah, FM Johnson - International journal of molecular …, 2022 - mdpi.com
Head and neck squamous cell carcinomas (HNSCCs) are the sixth most common cancers
worldwide. More than half of patients with HNSCC eventually experience disease …

The key differences between human papillomavirus-positive and-negative head and neck cancers: biological and clinical implications

SF Powell, L Vu, WC Spanos, D Pyeon - Cancers, 2021 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary Head and neck cancer (HNC) is the sixth most common cancer, causing
almost half a million deaths worldwide every year. The two subtypes of HNC are distinctly …

Phase II multi-institutional clinical trial result of concurrent cetuximab and nivolumab in recurrent and/or metastatic head and neck squamous cell carcinoma

CH Chung, J Li, CE Steuer, P Bhateja, M Johnson… - Clinical Cancer …, 2022 - AACR
Purpose: A phase II multi-institutional clinical trial was conducted to determine overall
survival (OS) in patients with recurrent and/or metastatic (R/M) head and neck squamous …

Afatinib and pembrolizumab for recurrent or metastatic head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (ALPHA Study): a phase II study with biomarker analysis

HF Kao, BC Liao, YL Huang, HC Huang, CN Chen… - Clinical Cancer …, 2022 - AACR
Purpose: EGFR pathway inhibition may promote anti–programmed cell death protein 1 (PD-
1) responses in preclinical models, but how EGFR inhibition affects tumor antigen …

[HTML][HTML] Current perspectives on recurrent HPV-mediated oropharyngeal cancer

T Guo, SY Kang, EEW Cohen - Frontiers in Oncology, 2022 - frontiersin.org
In the recent years, the prevalence of HPV-positive oropharyngeal squamous cell carcinoma
(OPSCC) has increased significantly. Currently, nearly 80-90% of all oropharynx tumors are …

Immunotherapy and biomarker testing in recurrent and metastatic head and neck cancers: ASCO Guideline

E Yilmaz, N Ismaila, JE Bauman… - Journal of Clinical …, 2023 - ingentaconnect.com
PURPOSE To provide evidence-based recommendations for practicing physicians and
other health care providers on immunotherapy and biomarker testing for head and neck …