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What's New in Immunotherapy for Head and Neck Cancer?

Posted by Luisa @luisa, Apr 20, 2017

"What's New in Immunotherapy for Head and Neck Cancer?"
New Blog Post from Dana-Farber Cancer Institute

The blog post begins,

"For patients with advanced head and neck cancers, immune-based therapies have started to show results against these hard-to-treat tumors. Two immunotherapy drugs were approved in 2016 for use when standard treatments failed, and many other agents are being tested in clinical trials..."

Read the full blog post at http://blog.dana-farber.org/insight/2017/04/whats-new-in-immunotherapy-for-head-and-neck-cancer/ .

Interested in more discussions like this? Go to the Head and Neck Cancers group.

My wife was recently offered Opdivo/Yervoy as a most promising option.
https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT02741570
Plus here is another if you are HPV +.
https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT02379520?term=NCT02379520&rank=1
These were given as the top two choices (better than current standard treatment) but with trial risk.

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A new resource to keep you up to date with all the advances in precision cancer medicines and immunotherapies; http://www.oncoprecision.org
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