Robert I. Haddad, MD, on Head and Neck Cancer: Results of the CheckMate 141 Trial
2017 ESMO Congress
Robert I. Haddad, MD, of Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, discusses phase III study results on treatment beyond disease progression with nivolumab in patients with recurrent or metastatic squamous cell carcinoma of the head and neck (Abstract 1043O).
David A. Tuveson, MD, PhD, of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, discusses the most lethal of cancers. Although treatments are improving, the challenges are great, including early detection of this malignancy, which metastasizes early in its development.
Bernard J. Escudier, MD, of Gustave Roussy, discusses efficacy and safety of nivolumab plus ipilimumab vs sunitinib for treatment-naïve advanced or metastatic renal cell carcinoma, including IMDC risk and PD-L1 expression subgroups (Abstract LBA5).
Bonnie S. Glisson, MD, of The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, discusses a clinical trial on the combination of ISA101, an HPV-16 vaccine, and nivolumab for patients with incurable HPV-16+ cancer (Abstract 1136O).
Marleen Kok, MD, PhD, of The Netherlands Cancer Institute, discusses findings from an adaptive phase II noncomparative trial of nivolumab after induction treatment in triple-negative breast cancer (Abstract LBA14).
Sibylle Loibl, MD, PhD, of the German Breast Group, summarizes a session she chaired in which the rationale to target CDK4, data on efficacy of the inhibitors, and triple combination therapy with PI3K were discussed.