A study led by researchers from NYU Grossman School of Medicine and UC San Diego Moores Cancer Center linked the extent of genomic loss of region 9p24 on chromosome 9 in the cancer cells of patients with HPV-negative head and neck squamous cell carcinoma to survival duration after checkpoint inhibitor therapy.
Research from the University of Pittsburgh explains why metastatic uveal melanoma is resistant to conventional immunotherapies and how adoptive therapy, which involves growing a patient’s T cells outside the body before reinfusing them, can successfully treat this rare and aggressive cancer.
