Patients with locally advanced head and neck cancer who received the immune checkpoint inhibitor pembrolizumab before, during ...

Head and neck cancer is curable if detected early. Sometimes, it can be removed with just surgery or radiation alone. More advanced cancer may be treated with a combination of surgery, radiation ...

The addition of neoadjuvant and adjuvant pembrolizumab to standard of care significantly improved outcomes for certain ...

Ending a 20-year-plus drought, Merck & Co.’s Keytruda demonstrated that its use around surgery can reduce the risk of certain ...

Ravindra Uppaluri, MD, PhD Currently, patients newly diagnosed with HNSCC undergo surgery, followed by ... “because in head and neck cancer, in particular, this really sets the stage for us ...

In general, head and neck cancers are treated with surgery, radiation, chemotherapy or a combination. However, head and neck ...

Pembrolizumab combo before/after surgery and radiation significantly improved event-free survival in resectable advanced head ...

Adding perioperative pembrolizumab to standard care can improve EFS in locally advanced head and neck cancer, data suggest.

Patients with locally advanced head and neck cancer who received the immune checkpoint inhibitor pembrolizumab before, during ...

Adding pembrolizumab (Keytruda), before and after surgery, to standard adjuvant therapy for locally advanced head and neck ...