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Pembrolizumab alone or with chemotherapy versus cetuximab with chemotherapy for recurrent or metastatic squamous cell carcinoma of the head and neck (KEYNOTE-048) : a randomised, open-label, phase 3 study

Barbara Burtness, +205 more
- 23 Nov 2019 - 
- Vol. 394, Iss: 10212, pp 1915-1928
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A randomised, phase 3 study of participants with untreated locally incurable recurrent or metastatic HNSCC done at 200 sites in 37 countries finds that pembrolizumab alone improved overall survival and progression-free survival and cetuximab with chemotherapy improved Overall survival in the total population.
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This article is published in The Lancet.The article was published on 2019-11-23. It has received 1490 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Pembrolizumab & Population.

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Head and neck squamous cell carcinoma

TL;DR: This Primer provides an overview of the epidemiology, pathogenesis and treatment of HNSCCs of different aetiologies and the effects of the cancer and its treatment on patient quality of life.
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Head and Neck Cancers, Version 2.2020, NCCN Clinical Practice Guidelines in Oncology.

TL;DR: The NCCN Guidelines for Head and Neck Cancers as mentioned in this paper describe supportive care recommendations for patients with H&N cancers and the rationale supporting a new section on imaging recommendations for head and neck cancers.
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PD-L1 as a biomarker of response to immune-checkpoint inhibitors

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors describe the current role of PD-L1 immunohistochemistry assays used to inform the selection of patients to receive antiPD-1 or anti-PD-L 1 antibodies, discuss the various technical and clinical challenges associated with these assays, including regulatory issues, and provide some perspective on how to optimize PDL1 as a selection biomarker for the future treatment of patients with solid tumours.
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Acquired Resistance to Immune Checkpoint Inhibitors.

TL;DR: The barriers to progress and emerging clinical reports interrogating acquired resistance are examined with the goal to facilitate efforts to overcome acquired resistance to ICIs in the future.
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Immune Landscape of Viral- and Carcinogen-Driven Head and Neck Cancer

TL;DR: A gene expression signature associated with CD4+ T follicular helper cells that is associated with longer progression-free survival in HNSCC patients is defined and provided a resource for the further study of the impact of immune cells on viral- and carcinogen-induced cancers.
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