Head & Neck/Thyroid Cancers
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Opioid-free regimen after neck dissection keeps patients comfortable
CHICAGO – A multimodal approach can also help reduce waste and the potential for addiction.
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Immune-related toxicities, hospitalization common with checkpoint inhibitor therapy
The most common immune-related adverse events warranting hospital admission were pneumonitis and colitis.
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FDA approves Keytruda for metastatic HNSCC
The approval was based on findings from the KEYNOTE-048 trial.
Conference Coverage
Ado-trastuzumab highly efficacious for rare HER2-amplified SGCs
CHICAGO – Ado-trastuzumab emtansine, previously known as T-DM1, is highly efficacious in patients with HER2-...
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Pembro with or without chemo superior to EXTREME for advanced HNSCC
CHICAGO – Pembrolizumab with and without chemotherapy proved superior for overall survival vs. the EXTREME regimen...
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Novel anti-PD-1 antibody can be given subcutaneously
“Subcutaneous administration of an anti-PD-1 antibody in patients with advanced solid tumors appears to be feasible,” the investigators wrote.
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Study finds inconsistent links with aspirin, nonaspirin NSAIDs and reduced skin cancer risk
“We observed weak and inconsistent inverse associations between use of these medications and incidence of either BCC or SCC.”
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Skip metastasis rate low in node-negative oral cancers
Supraomohyoid neck dissection is likely adequate for the subset of patients with oral cancer and node-negative disease.
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PET imaging at diagnosis improves oropharyngeal cancer outcomes
In patients with oropharyngeal cancer, initial staging with PET imaging was associated with better cancer-specific survival than staging with...
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Post-treatment persistence of oral HPV in HNSCC predicts recurrence, death
Patients who still had detectable oral HPV DNA after primary treatment had a more than tripling of risk of recurrence-free survival events and a...
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Ultrasound offers advantages for long-term lymph node surveillance in high-grade SCC patients
BALTIMORE – Compared with other imaging modalities, ultrasound gives more anatomic details and costs much less.