Head & Neck Cancers

Single-agent cemiplimab demonstrated safety and efficacy in patients with locally advanced or metastatic cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma who comprised group 6 of the phase 2 EMPOWER-CSCC-1 trial that was in line with what was previously reported in groups 1, 2, and 3 of the study.

Xevinapant plus chemoradiotherapy more than halved the risk of death vs placebo plus chemoradiotherapy without increasing toxicity in patients with unresectable, locally advanced head and neck squamous cell carcinoma.

Lutetium-177-FAP-2286 produced preliminary evidence of antitumor activity with a manageable safety profile in patients with advanced or metastatic solid tumors, according to data from the phase 1/2 LuMIERE trial.

Pembrolizumab, alone and in combination with chemotherapy, maintained an overall survival benefit compared with cetuximab plus chemotherapy for patients with recurrent or metastatic head and neck squamous cell carcinoma at 4 years.

Nabil Saba, MD, FACP, discusses the disparities seen in clinical trials in head and neck cancer.

The FDA has granted a fast track designation to CUE-101 for use as a monotherapy and in combination with pembrolizumab in patients with human papillomavirus recurrent or metastatic head and neck squamous cell carcinoma.

The FDA has agreed on key elements of the clinical program to support the biologic license application for the combination of PDS0101 and pembrolizumab for the treatment of unresectable, recurrent/metastatic HPV16-positive head and neck squamous cell carcinoma.

The FDA has granted a fast track designation to ficlatuzumab for the treatment of patients with relapsed or recurrent head and neck squamous cell carcinoma.

The combination of lenvatinib and pembrolizumab was found to induce high response rates, including long-lasting remissions, and have acceptable safety in patients with metastasized anaplastic thyroid carcinoma and poorly differentiated thyroid carcinoma.

Pembrolizumab plus chemoradiation failed to demonstrate a statistically significant improvement in event-free survival vs chemoradiation alone in patients with locally advanced head and neck squamous cell carcinoma.

The addition of xevinapant to standard-of-care chemoradiotherapy elicited continued 5-year overall survival and 3-year duration of response benefits in patients with unresected head and neck locally advanced squamous cell carcinoma.

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The phase 3 INTERLINK-1 trial was discontinued after monalizumab plus cetuximab failed to meet a predefined threshold for efficacy compared with cetuximab alone in patients with recurrent or metastatic squamous cell carcinoma of the head and neck.

IRX-2 failed to demonstrate a statistically significant improvement in event-free survival as neoadjuvant therapy compared with standard of care in patients with newly diagnosed, stage II, III, or IVA squamous cell carcinoma of the oral cavity.

Pembrolizumab plus concurrent chemoradiation followed by pembrolizumab maintenance did not lead to a statistically significant improvement in event-free survival vs concurrent chemoradiation alone in patients with unresected locally advanced head and neck squamous cell carcinoma.

Cabozantinib monotherapy maintained continued to provide a superior progression-free survival benefit to that achieved with placebo in adults with locally advanced or metastatic differentiated thyroid carcinoma, irrespective of histology, according to updated data from the phase 3 COSMIC-311 trial.

The phase 2 CP-MGA271-06 trial closed early following an internal review of safety data of enoblituzumab plus retifanlimab or tebotelimab as a first-line treatment for patients with recurrent or metastatic head and neck squamous cell carcinoma.

The FDA has accepted for review a biologics license application resubmission for toripalimab both in combination and as monotherapy for patients with advanced recurrent or metastatic nasopharyngeal carcinoma, according to an announcement from drug developer Coherus.

The FDA has granted a fast track designation to PDS0101 for use in combination with pembrolizumab in patients with recurrent or metastatic HPV16-positive head and neck cancer.

Tislelizumab plus chemotherapy continued to improve progression-free survival over chemotherapy alone when used in the frontline treatment of patients with recurrent or metastatic nasopharyngeal carcinoma, according to updated data from the RATIONALE-309 trial.

The combination of PDS0101 and pembrolizumab led to encouraging responses and favorable safety with no grade 3 or greater treatment-related adverse effects in patients with checkpoint inhibitor–naïve HPV16-positive recurrent or metastatic head and neck squamous cell carcinoma, according to findings from a prespecified interim analysis of the phase 2 VERSATILE-002 study.

The oral VEGFR2 TKI rivoceranib demonstrated an objective response rate by investigator assessed RECIST 1.1 criteria of 15.1% and a disease control rate of 64.4% for patients with recurrent or metastatic adenoid cystic carcinoma.

Treatment with larotrectinib elicited robust and durable responses, had a favorable safety profile, and sustained survival benefit in patients with central nervous system TRK fusion cancers.

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Avasopasem significantly reduced severe oral mucositis across all intensity-modulated radiotherapy landmarks in patients with locally advanced, nonmetastatic head and neck cancer.