2020
Pembrolizumab given concomitantly with chemoradiation and as maintenance therapy for locally advanced head and neck squamous cell carcinoma: KEYNOTE-412
Machiels JP, Tao Y, Burtness B, Tahara M, Licitra L, Rischin D, Waldron J, Simon C, Gregoire V, Harrington K, Alves GV, Lima I, Pointreau Y, Hughes B, Aksoy S, Hetnal M, Ge JY, Brown H, Cheng J, Bidadi B, Siu LL. Pembrolizumab given concomitantly with chemoradiation and as maintenance therapy for locally advanced head and neck squamous cell carcinoma: KEYNOTE-412. Future Oncology 2020, 16: 1235-1243. PMID: 32490686, DOI: 10.2217/fon-2020-0184.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsNeck squamous cell carcinomaPhase III trialsSquamous cell carcinomaChemoradiation therapyAdvanced headIII trialsCell carcinomaImmune checkpoint inhibitor pembrolizumabLarge phase III trialsCheckpoint inhibitor pembrolizumabUse of pembrolizumabCurrent treatment guidelinesAdvanced HNSCCAdvanced diseaseMaintenance therapyMetastatic HNSCCTreatment guidelinesMaintenance treatmentMultimodal treatmentPembrolizumabPatientsAntitumor activityIB dataChemoradiationHNSCC
2016
Proposing prognostic thresholds for lymph node yield in clinically lymph node‐negative and lymph node‐positive cancers of the oral cavity
Kuo P, Mehra S, Sosa JA, Roman SA, Husain ZA, Burtness BA, Tate JP, Yarbrough WG, Judson BL. Proposing prognostic thresholds for lymph node yield in clinically lymph node‐negative and lymph node‐positive cancers of the oral cavity. Cancer 2016, 122: 3624-3631. PMID: 27479645, DOI: 10.1002/cncr.30227.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsNational Cancer DatabaseOral cavity cancerMortality hazard ratioLymph nodesHazard ratioNeck dissectionLymph node-negative cancersLymph node-positive cancersNode-positive cancersNode-positive cohortPositive lymph nodesTherapeutic neck dissectionEnd Results (SEER) databaseLymph node yieldHigh-volume centersExtensive neck dissectionMultiple cancer sitesNode-negative cancersOverall survivalHigher lymphPrognostic factorsTreatment guidelinesNode yieldResults databaseSurgical management