HEAD & NECK CANCERS

Ezra Cohen, MD, professor of medicine, UC San Diego Moores Cancer Center, discusses new data on immunotherapies for head and neck cancers.

Ghassan K. Abou-Alfa, MD, Gastrointestinal Oncology Service, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, discusses a retrospective study to determine the prognostic value of C-reactive protein (CRP) levels in patients with hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) who are undergoing treatment with sorafenib.

Hassan Arshad, MD, assistant professor of oncology, head and neck surgeon, Department of Head and Neck Surgery/Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Roswell Park Cancer Institute, discusses the future of treating head and neck cancer and the challenges behind treating the disease.

Hassan Arshad, MD, assistant professor of oncology, head and neck surgeon, Department of Head and Neck Surgery/Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Roswell Park Cancer Institute, discusses a new study that will be evaluating a new approach to photodynamic therapy in patients with head and neck cancer.

A wide-ranging analysis of more than 5500 breast cancer tumors that combined genomic and protein expression testing has identified promising targets to explore for treating patients with poor prognoses, with particularly notable findings involving androgen receptor (AR) expression.

Marcia S. Brose, MD, PhD, assistant professor, Abramson Cancer Center, University of Pennsylvania, discusses research into vandetanib for the treatment of patients with differentiated thyroid cancer.

The investigational agent lenvatinib (E7808) met its primary endpoint of progression-free survival (PFS) in the phase III SELECT trial, which compared lenvatinib to placebo in patients with radioiodine-refractory differentiated thyroid cancer (RR-DTC),according to Eisai Inc., the company that is developing the agent.

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.