Browsing: Head and Neck

Top Line: Does proton therapy reduce acute mucositis in patients receiving adjuvant radiation for resected head and neck cancer?The Study:…

This thought-provoking retrospective cohort suggests serum (yes, circulating soluble) PD-L1 is uniquely elevated in patients with aggressive, as opposed to…

This case report details how skull base osteoradionecrosis at the craniovertebral junction can present insidiously with mild neck pain years…

Considering the target of comprehensive head and neck irradiation, it’s not surprising that post-treatment lymphedema is the rule rather than…

This retrospective analysis of 134 patients with head and neck cancer of unknown primary from two different centers found no…

Top Line: Is it ok to give weekly cisplatin instead of every three weeks cisplatin with adjuvant radiation for head…

Top Line:Prescription de-escalation to 60 Gy remains an intriguing, albeit investigational, strategy for early-stage p16+ oSCC.The Study:A post hoc comparison…

A single-armphase II trial treated 20 patients with unresectable and/or metastatic head and neck squamous cell carcinoma with pembrolizumab plus…

The Headline: Can imaging of tumor hypoxia guide radiation dose de-escalation for HPV+ oropharyngeal cancer?The Study: We’ve previously seen results…

An interesting critique of the widely-circulated phase 3 trial reporting an unexpected improvement in overall survival with the use of…