LSU Health New Orleans receives $3.1M grant to study head-and-neck cancer incidence in people living with HIV

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Stand Up To Cancer announced grants to several teams of leading cancer investigators in support of cutting-edge research in a variety of cancers including head and neck, pediatric, pancreatic, breast, rectal, and gastro-esophageal cancers, as well as research focused on how the microbiome communicates with the immune system.

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Vol.50 No.39

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Keytruda meets primary endpoint as perioperative treatment regimen in resected, locally advanced HNSCC

The phase III KEYNOTE-689 trial evaluating Keytruda (pembrolizumab), Merck’s anti-PD-1 therapy, as a perioperative treatment for patients newly diagnosed with stage 3 or 4A, resected, locally advanced head and neck squamous cell carcinoma met its primary endpoint of event-free survival.

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Vol.50 No.38

2024 Lasker Awards honor discoveries in antitumor immunity, GLP-1-based drugs, and research, advocacy in HIV/AIDS

The 2024 Albert Lasker Basic Medical Research Award went to Zhijian “James” Chen. The Lasker~DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award went to Joel Habener, Lotte Bjerre Knudsen, and Svetlana Mojsov. The Lasker~Bloomberg Public Service Award went to Quarraisha Abdool Karim and Salim S. Abdool Karim.

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By Claire Marie Porter

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Mayo Clinic performs world’s first known successful total larynx transplant in a patient with active cancer

A multidisciplinary team of doctors at Mayo Clinic in Arizona performed the third known total larynx transplant in the U.S.

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Conversation with The Cancer Letter

Robert L. Ferris named executive director of UNC Lineberger—with an additional job as chief of oncology services

Robert L. Ferris, a head-and-neck surgeon and an expert in cancer immunotherapy was named the executive director of UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center and the chief of oncology services at UNC Health.

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Vol.50 No.25

By Paul Goldberg

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