Now head and
neck cancers associated with the virus are on the rise, leading some experts to recommend that a gender - neutral or male - centric approach might be more effective.
Not exact matches
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.
«If this strategy is effective, then it might be broadly applicable not only against lung
cancer but also against other
cancers that express EGFR, which include brain, colon, and head and
neck cancers,» said Dr. Gerber,
Associate Professor of Internal Medicine and Clinical Sciences.
The authors report that higher levels of physical activity compared to lower levels were
associated with lower risks of 13 of 26
cancers: esophageal adenocarcinoma (42 percent lower risk); liver (27 percent lower risk); lung (26 percent lower risk); kidney (23 percent lower risk); gastric cardia (22 percent lower risk); endometrial (21 percent lower risk); myeloid leukemia (20 percent lower risk); myeloma (17 percent lower risk); colon (16 percent lower risk); head and
neck (15 percent lower risk), rectal (13 percent lower risk); bladder (13 percent lower risk); and breast (10 percent lower risk).
«This study defines a signaling axis that is essential for head and
neck cancer progression, and our findings show that this axis may be disrupted at three key steps,» says principal investigator Quintin Pan, PhD,
associate professor of otolaryngology at the OSUCCC — James.
MAKING TRACKS Head and
neck cancer cells (red) crawl along tracks (green) laid down by
cancer -
associated fibroblasts.
Long
associated with liver
cancer and non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, a study from The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center reveals for the first time that the hepatitis C virus (HCV) is associated with certain head and neck ca
cancer and non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, a study from The University of Texas MD Anderson
Cancer Center reveals for the first time that the hepatitis C virus (HCV) is associated with certain head and neck ca
Cancer Center reveals for the first time that the hepatitis C virus (HCV) is
associated with certain head and
neck cancers.
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.
«This adds a new dimension to head and
neck cancer biology that was not on anyone's radar screen before,» said Levi A. Garraway, a senior associate member of the Broad Institute, an assistant professor at Dana - Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard Medical School, and a senior author of one of the Science p
cancer biology that was not on anyone's radar screen before,» said Levi A. Garraway, a senior
associate member of the Broad Institute, an assistant professor at Dana - Farber
Cancer Institute and Harvard Medical School, and a senior author of one of the Science p
Cancer Institute and Harvard Medical School, and a senior author of one of the Science papers.
EBV can be transmitted through saliva and other bodily fluids and is
associated with diseases such as mononucleosis, lymphoma, and head and
neck cancer.
Endogenous markers of two separate hypoxia response pathways (hypoxia inducible factor 2 alpha and carbonic anhydrase 9) are
associated with radiotherapy failure in head and
neck cancer patients recruited in the CHART randomized trial
In a study from the Netherlands of over 120,000 subjects followed for over 20 years, consumption of processed red meat was
associated with developing
cancers of the head and
neck.