The role of immunotherapy in the treatment of locally advanced head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (LA-HNSCC) is currently being reassessed. At the SOHC Congress 2025 in Basel, Yungan Tao (Gustave Roussy, Villejuif) presented current studies and emphasized the importance of KEYNOTE-689, which for the first time shows the significant advantage of a neoadjuvant and adjuvant pembrolizumab strategy.
Autoren
- Dr. oec. Odile Schwarz-Herion
Publikation
- InFo ONKOLOGIE & HÄMATOLOGIE
Related Topics
- adjuvant pembrolizumab
- ADRISK study
- Antibody-drug conjugates HNSCC
- Avelumab radiochemotherapy
- bispecific antibodies HNSCC
- Checkpoint inhibitors HNSCC
- Cisplatin-based radiochemotherapy
- EFS improvement HNSCC
- FLASH-RT
- GORTEC-2018-01
- Head and neck squamous cell carcinoma
- Immuno-oncological therapy HNSCC
- Immunotherapy for head and neck tumors
- JAVELIN-Head-and-Neck-100
- KEYNOTE-412
- KEYNOTE-689
- LA-HNSCC
- locally advanced HNSCC
- MACH-NC meta-analysis
- neoadjuvant immunotherapy
- neoadjuvant pembrolizumab
- Nivolumab HNSCC
- Pembrolizumab HNSCC
- PembroRad study
- Personalized immunotherapy
- Precision immunotherapy HNSCC
- Proton therapy HNSCC
- Radiochemotherapy HNSCC
- REACH
- REACH study
- resectable HNSCC
- Simultaneous radiochemotherapy
- SOHC
- squamous cell carcinoma
- Xevinapant study
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