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C. René Leemans

Researcher at VU University Medical Center

Publications -  233
Citations -  14786

C. René Leemans is an academic researcher from VU University Medical Center. The author has contributed to research in topics: Cancer & Head and neck cancer. The author has an hindex of 59, co-authored 195 publications receiving 12152 citations. Previous affiliations of C. René Leemans include Vanderbilt University Medical Center & University of Florence.

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The molecular landscape of head and neck cancer

TL;DR: It became apparent that HNSCC is a disease characterized by frequent mutations that create neoantigens, indicating that immunotherapies might be effective and that immunotherapy trials with immune checkpoint inhibitors were published, and these may be considered as a paradigm shift in head and neck oncology.
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A novel algorithm for reliable detection of human papillomavirus in paraffin embedded head and neck cancer specimen.

TL;DR: It is shown that clinically meaningful viral HPV infections can be more reliably measured in FFPE H NSCC samples in a standard and high throughput manner, paving the way for prognostic and experimental vaccination studies, regarding not only HNSCC, but possibly also cancer types with HPV involvement in subgroups such as penile and anal cancer.
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Multiple head and neck tumors frequently originate from a single preneoplastic lesion.

TL;DR: Whether first and second primary tumors are clonally related and originate from a single genetically altered field is determined and a proportion of multiple primary tumors have developed within a single preneoplastic field.