Sentences with phrase «head and neck cancer called»

Epstein - Barr is best known for causing infectious mononucleosis, but it is also associated with an increased risk for several cancers, as well as a rare type of head and neck cancer called nasopharyngeal carcinoma.

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A similar virus, called H101, is already marketed in China to treat head and neck cancers.

The group is launching a phase III trial of the engineered virus, called OncoVex, for head and neck cancer.

The effects of the pactamycin analogs, called TM - 025 and TM - 026, were characterized in head and neck cancer cell lines, which cause the eighth most common cancer in the world.

To investigate why checkpoint inhibitors so often stop working, Velculescu; Valsamo Anagnostou, M.D., Ph.D., instructor of oncology at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine; Kellie N. Smith, Ph.D., a cancer immunology research associate at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine; and their colleagues at the Bloomberg ~ Kimmel Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy studied tumors of four patients with non-small cell lung cancer and one patient with head and neck cancer who developed resistance to two different checkpoint inhibitors: a drug called nivolumab that uses an antibody called anti-PD-1, or nivolumab used alone or in combination with a second drug called ipilimumab, which uses an antibody called anti-cancer immunology research associate at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine; and their colleagues at the Bloomberg ~ Kimmel Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy studied tumors of four patients with non-small cell lung cancer and one patient with head and neck cancer who developed resistance to two different checkpoint inhibitors: a drug called nivolumab that uses an antibody called anti-PD-1, or nivolumab used alone or in combination with a second drug called ipilimumab, which uses an antibody called anti-Cancer Immunotherapy studied tumors of four patients with non-small cell lung cancer and one patient with head and neck cancer who developed resistance to two different checkpoint inhibitors: a drug called nivolumab that uses an antibody called anti-PD-1, or nivolumab used alone or in combination with a second drug called ipilimumab, which uses an antibody called anti-cancer and one patient with head and neck cancer who developed resistance to two different checkpoint inhibitors: a drug called nivolumab that uses an antibody called anti-PD-1, or nivolumab used alone or in combination with a second drug called ipilimumab, which uses an antibody called anti-cancer who developed resistance to two different checkpoint inhibitors: a drug called nivolumab that uses an antibody called anti-PD-1, or nivolumab used alone or in combination with a second drug called ipilimumab, which uses an antibody called anti-CTLA4.

The Alabama scientists have now shown how it works against head and neck cancers: It blocks a protein called epidermal growth factor receptor, or EGFR.

«This study, one of only a few large studies to have follow - up beyond five years, demonstrates that patients who have head and neck cancers and who are being treated with radiation therapy alone have improved local - regional control and no increase in late toxicity when radiation therapy is delivered twice a day in two smaller doses which we call hyperfractionation,» said Jonathan J. Beitler, MD, MBA, FASTRO, lead author of the study and professor of radiation oncology, otolaryngology and hematology / medical oncology at the Winship Cancer Institute of Emory University School of Medicine in Atlanta.

Doctors in Penn's Department of Otorhinolaryngology: Head and Neck Surgery are now building upon the surgical expertise gained through earlier pioneering work in robotic head and neck surgery and their development of the procedure called TransOral Robotic Surgery (TORS) for tongue base cancers to address the tongue base component of Head and Neck Surgery are now building upon the surgical expertise gained through earlier pioneering work in robotic head and neck surgery and their development of the procedure called TransOral Robotic Surgery (TORS) for tongue base cancers to address the tongue base component of head and neck surgery and their development of the procedure called TransOral Robotic Surgery (TORS) for tongue base cancers to address the tongue base component of OSA.

One of these, called FADD, has previously been linked to head and neck cancer and lung cancer and could be a promising target for new cancer therapies.

Scientists reported Tuesday on two new studies showing that the medications, which marshal the body's own immune defenses, are now having some effect against recurrent, difficult - to - treat head and neck cancer and an extremely lethal skin cancer called Merkel cell carcinoma.

Each June since his Stage IV head and neck cancer diagnosis in 2001, Jeff Warren sets off on a journey via his Litespeed Siena from his hometown of Reno, Nevada, to the steps of Huntsman Cancer Institute, where he endured the rigors of what he calls «slash, burn, and poison» (clinically known as surgery, radiation, and chemothecancer diagnosis in 2001, Jeff Warren sets off on a journey via his Litespeed Siena from his hometown of Reno, Nevada, to the steps of Huntsman Cancer Institute, where he endured the rigors of what he calls «slash, burn, and poison» (clinically known as surgery, radiation, and chemotheCancer Institute, where he endured the rigors of what he calls «slash, burn, and poison» (clinically known as surgery, radiation, and chemotherapy).