Head & Neck Cancer

Opportunities to further reduce relapses include pembrolizumab-based combination therapy and evaluating the agent’s contribution before and after surgery.

For patients with locally advanced head and neck cancers, the current standard of care for curative therapy has a cure rate of less than 50%.

Results from the NIVOPOSTOP trial found improved DFS with adjuvant nivolumab plus cisplatin and RT for patients with LA-SCCHN.

From breast cancer to head and neck tumors, the 2025 ASCO Annual Meeting may feature a wide range of practice-changing data across cancer care.

Survival data with eftilagimod alfa plus pembrolizumab compare favorably with historical results seen with standard-of-care therapies in this population.

Event-free survival events were observed in 37.5% of patients with resectable locally advanced HNSCC who took pembrolizumab vs 45.3% in those who did not.

Data from the phase 3 AK105-304 study support the approval of penpulimab in this nasopharyngeal carcinoma population.

Human saliva may hold antioxidants that are able to monitor the oral cavity's oxidative processes and offer guidance for the development of new drugs.

Christina Henson, MD, spoke about the impact negative trial results can have on advancing the head and neck cancer field forward.

Christina Henson, MD, discusses recent phase 3 trial results comparing durvalumab to cetuximab in head and neck cancer, and why the trial was stopped early.

The trial was terminated early due to no statistical significance observed between durvalumab and cetuximab for patients with head and neck squamous cell carcinoma.

Pembrolizumab and bevacizumab yielded an ORR of 58.3% vs 12.5% with pembrolizumab monotherapy in patients with platinum-resistant nasopharyngeal carcinoma.

Support for the supplemental biologics license application is based on phase 3 KEYNOTE-689 trial data.

Investigators will assess treatment with petosemtamab among patients with PD-L1–positive HNSCC in the phase 3 LiGeR-HN1 and LiGeR-HN2 trials.

Data support cetuximab/radiotherapy as a suitable option in carefully selected patients with HPV-negative squamous cell carcinoma of the head and neck.

The phase 3 NIVOPOSTOP GORTEC 2018-01 trial shows that nivolumab added to radiotherapy and cisplatin had improved efficacy over SOC treatments in SCCHN.

Experimental regimens did not cross the threshold to show superiority vs standard cisplatin plus 70 Gy radiation in those with HPV-associated oropharynx cancer.

Phase 2 data may support petosemtamab as a best-in-class treatment for frontline HNSCC, according to Jérôme Fayette, MD.

Phase 2 data also highlight an improvement in disease control rate with setanaxib/pembrolizumab in squamous cell carcinoma of the head and neck.

Nurses must increase the frequency of their assessments for early intervention of patients who undergo treatment for their head and neck cancer, in an effort to truly individualized care.

LYT-200 is currently being investigated for those with solid tumors and hematologic malignancies.

Patients with factors such as lymphovascular space invasion or positive glossectomy specimen margins may be considered for adjuvant radiotherapy to optimize disease control of tongue squamous cell carcinoma.

The use of postoperative adjuvant radiation therapy led to less weight loss in patients with HPV-positive oropharynx cancer, according to Wade L. Thorstad, MD.

Frontline pembrolizumab with or without chemotherapy appears to remain a standard of care for patients with recurrent or metastatic head and neck squamous cell carcinoma based on data from the LEAP-010 study.

Treatment with toripalimab does not yield the same vascular toxicity seen with pembrolizumab in patients with advanced or metastatic nasopharyngeal carcinoma, according to Barbara Burtness, MD.