New Challenges in Evaluating Outcomes after Immunotherapy in Recurrent and/or Metastatic Head and Neck Squamous Cell Carcinoma

In many recurrent and/or metastatic cancers, the advent of immunotherapy opens up new scenarios of treatment response, with new phenomena, such as pseudoprogression and hyperprogression. Because of this, different immune-related response criteria have been developed, and new therapeutic strategies adopted, such as treatment beyond progression. Moreover, the role of progression-free survival as a surrogate has been questioned, and new surrogate endpoint hypotheses have arisen. A proper understanding of radiological imaging, an assessment of the biological events triggered by therapy, and the clinical evolution of the lesions and of the patient performance status are all factors that should be considered to guide the oncologist's treatment choice. The primary aim of this article is to discuss how all these concepts apply to recurrent/metastatic head and neck squamous cell carcinoma patients when treated with immunotherapy.

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E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2022

Erschienen:

2022

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:10

Enthalten in:

Vaccines - 10(2022), 6 vom: 01. Juni

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Alberti, Andrea [VerfasserIn]
Lorini, Luigi [VerfasserIn]
Ravanelli, Marco [VerfasserIn]
Perri, Francesco [VerfasserIn]
Vinches, Marie [VerfasserIn]
Rondi, Paolo [VerfasserIn]
Romani, Chiara [VerfasserIn]
Bossi, Paolo [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Hyperprogression
Immunotherapy
Journal Article
Pseudoprogression
Recurrent and/or metastatic head and neck squamous cell carcinoma
Response criteria

Anmerkungen:

Date Revised 16.07.2022

published: Electronic

Citation Status PubMed-not-MEDLINE

doi:

10.3390/vaccines10060885

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM34267577X