Head & Neck/Thyroid Cancers
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Oropharynx cancer burden is shifting to older men
Increasing incidence of oropharynx cancer in individuals born after 1955 has slowed, whereas incidence continues to rise among individuals born...
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ASCO: Deintensified treatment in p16+ oropharyngeal cancer needs evaluation
Treatment deintensification for patients with p16+ oropharyngeal cancer should occur only in the context of a clinical trial, according to a...
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Increase in pediatric thyroid cancers: overdiagnosis or something more?
Troubling trend may be caused in part by environmental and individual factors, though others say overdiagnosis is “a likely explanation.”
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High pCR rate in HPV+ HNSCC with nivolumab/SBRT
ATLANTA – Nine of 10 patients in a phase 1/1b trial had pathologic complete responses to neoadjuvant nivolumab and radiation.
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Head and neck cancer cost analysis yields simple bundled payment model
Number of treatments needed drove costs in the analysis, leading to development of a three-tiered model for payments
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BWH classification system better predicts outcomes in HNCSCC
The Brigham and Women’s Hospital tumor classification system was better than the AJCC 8 in predicting metastases and death among 459 patients with...
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Survival after squamous recurrence may be unaffected by immune status
Patients who have recurrence of cutaneous squamous cell cancer of the head and neck (cSCC-HN) tend to have poor outcomes regardless of immune...
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Mouthwash shows some efficacy for oral mucositis pain
Patients undergoing head and neck radiotherapy who used mouthwash had lower pain scores, compared with placebo, but clinical thresholds weren’t...
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ATA risk stratification for DTC performs well in real-world cohort
NEW ORLEANS – The risk stratification system also worked well as a predictor of disease-specific survival.
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Antibiotics gut checkpoint inhibitor efficacy
SAN FRANCISCO – Patients who had received antibiotics more than a month before a checkpoint inhibitor had significantly worse survival, regardless...
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Characteristics of mucinous adenocarcinoma highlighted
CORONADO, CALIF. – The condition most commonly presents on the eyelid (29.8%), skin of the face (22.6%), and the skin of the scalp and neck (12.2...