Pilot Phase II Trial of Neoadjuvant Immunotherapy in Locoregionally Advanced, Resectable Cutaneous Squamous Cell Carcinoma of the Head and Neck
Ferrarotto R, Amit M, Nagarajan P, Rubin M, Yuan Y, Bell D, El-Naggar A, Johnson J, Morrison W, Rosenthal D, Glisson B, Johnson F, Lu C, Mott F, Esmaeli B, Diaz E, Gidley P, Goepfert R, Lewis C, Weber R, Wargo J, Basu S, Duan F, Yadav S, Sharma P, Allison J, Myers J, Gross N. Pilot Phase II Trial of Neoadjuvant Immunotherapy in Locoregionally Advanced, Resectable Cutaneous Squamous Cell Carcinoma of the Head and Neck. Clinical Cancer Research 2021, 27: 4557-4565. PMID: 34187851, PMCID: PMC8711237, DOI: 10.1158/1078-0432.ccr-21-0585.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsCutaneous squamous cell carcinomaInflamed tumor microenvironmentSquamous cell carcinomaHead and neckCSCC-HNNeoadjuvant immunotherapyCell carcinomaTumor microenvironmentPathological responsePD-1 inhibitionCurative-intent surgeryPathological response rateBiomarkers of responseT cell clustersOS ratesNeoadjuvant treatmentPartial responseRecurrent diseaseExploratory endpointsPrimary endpointSecondary endpointsImmune biomarkersFollow-upCyTOF analysisPatients