Sentences with phrase «advanced head and neck cancer»
The patient in the Annals of Oncology report, «Mr. S» (the authors don't use his name because of confidentiality concerns), had been treated for advanced head and neck cancer.
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Tanguy Seiwert, M.D., of The University of Chicago, presented results of a phase 1b trial of Merck's pembrolizumab in a cohort of patients with advanced head and neck cancer.
Based on these promising results, an additional 110 patients with advanced head and neck cancer are being recruited to the study.
April 13, 2000 Combined therapy improves survival for advanced head and neck cancer Intensive treatment combining radiation and chemotherapy can control locally advanced head and neck cancer, improve survival and in most cases eliminate the need for debilitating surgery.
Intensive treatment combining radiation and chemotherapy can control locally advanced head and neck cancer, improve survival, and in most cases eliminate the need for debilitating surgery, report researchers from the University of Chicago Medical Center and Northwestern University in the April 14, 2000, issue of the Journal of Clinical Oncology.
Summary: Intensive treatment combining radiation and chemotherapy can control locally advanced head and neck cancer, improve survival and in most cases eliminate the need for debilitating surgery.
Working with colleagues at the University of Chicago, our experts created a new combination chemotherapy and radiation therapy treatment regimen that helps some patients with advanced head and neck cancer avoid major surgery.
In a recent multi-institutional phase II trial of Onyx - 015 led by investigators at University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, 30 patients with advanced head and neck cancer, most of whom had failed surgery or radiation therapy, were treated.
This study, «Final Results of Local - Regional Control and Late Toxicity of RTOG 9003: A Randomized Trial of Altered Fractionation Radiation for Locally Advanced Head and Neck Cancer,» is a multi-institutional, randomized Phase III trial of fractionation in locally advanced head and neck cancer.
More advanced head and neck cancers are generally treated with multi-modality surgery, including various combinations of surgery, radiation, and chemotherapy.
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The researchers treated 76 patients between 1993 and 1996 with intensive therapy for advanced cancers of the head and neck.
Located a few blocks away from the main facility, Rutgers Cancer Institute's Programs at Plum Street provide advanced treatment options for malignant as well as benign disorders of the head, neck, brain and spine.