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Ezra Cohen: Benefit of adding cetuximab adjuvantly was seen only in HPV negative cancers
Feb 3, 2025, 13:57

Ezra Cohen: Benefit of adding cetuximab adjuvantly was seen only in HPV negative cancers

Ezra Cohen, Chief Medical Officer of Oncology at Tempus Labs, posted LinkedIn about recent paper by Mitchell Machtay et al., titled “Postoperative Radiotherapy ± Cetuximab for Intermediate-Risk Head and Neck Cancer” published on Journal of Clinical Oncology.

Authors: Mitchell Machtay, Pedro A. Torres-Saavedra, Wade Thorstad, Phuc Felix Nguyen-Tân, Lillian L. Siu, F. Christopher Holsinger, Adel El-Naggar, Christine Chung, Anthony Cmelak, Barbara Burtness, Greg Bednarz, Harry Quon, Stephen L. Breen, Clement K. Gwede, Adam P. Dicker, Min Yao, Richard C. Jordan, Jennifer Dorth, Nancy Lee, Jason W. Chan, Neal Dunlap, Voichita Bar-Ad, William A. Stokes, Arnab Chakravarti, David Sher, Shyam Rao, Jonathan Harris, Sue S. Yom, Quynh-Thu Le

Ezra Cohen: Benefit of adding cetuximab adjuvantly was seen only in HPV negative cancers

“Benefit of adding cetuximab adjuvantly was seen only in HPV negative cancers – ~10% absolute improvement in DFS and OS. Efforts should be directed at finding which HPV negative cancers benefit from EGFR inhibition.”