Head and neck cancer has always been the next obvious indication for the drug.
The good news is that HPV-caused tonsil cancer is less deadly than traditional forms of head and neck cancer.
Having any allergy was associated with a 59% reduced risk of any type of head and neck cancer, the study found.
Previous research has found single men have a poorer chance of surviving several types of cancer, including prostate and head and neck cancer.
Head and neck cancer patients waited the longest, with 77.4% treated within 62 days, while the figure fell to 54.5% in Grampian and 50% in Ayrshire and Arran.
The Bon Secours STAR team also deals with specific issues such as helping head and neck cancer patients restore normal functions of swallowing, speech and movement after treatment.
The results of a study released Wednesday by ImClone showed that Erbitux, mainly used to treat colon cancer, would also be effective in the treatment of head and neck cancer.
The second Chi-Med drug in trials, a radiosensitizer for head and neck cancer, helps make tumor cells more receptive to radiation by increasing the amount of oxygen in the cells.
Today's announcement will likely give investors more confidence that the drug will be approved for head and neck cancer patients, despite a delay in filing a new drug application for that indication.
But he impressed me most by how he and his wonderful life partner, Chaz, negotiated his years with head and neck cancer, a disease that claimed his lower jaw and, now, his life.
The next big trial results for Erbitux are expected next spring, when ImClone is likely to release results of a big phase-3 trial combining Erbitux with radiation in treating head and neck cancer.
In China, Shenzhen SiBiono GeneTech won approval for a gene therapy drug for head and neck cancer in 2003 but no products have been approved until now in Europe or the United States.
In 2003 the company's treatment for head and neck cancer, which accounts for about 10% of the 2.5m new cancer patients in China every year, gained the first commercial approval of a gene-therapy treatment.
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MediPharma has two drugs derived from Chinese herbs in midstage clinical trials in the U.S., one to improve the potency of radiation therapy on head and neck cancer and the other to treat Crohn's disease, an inflammation of the digestive tract.
Thursday, Amgen shares surged 5% as advisers told the Food and Drug Administration to warn patients not to use the company's top-selling anemia drug for head and neck cancer, breast cancer or in any case where patients might be cured of their cancer by chemotherapy.
Although breast cancer is different from head-and-neck cancer, there still may be a link, says Lawenda.
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The colon cancer Vectibix did not improve survival in head-and-neck cancer, maker Amgen announced this morning.
The result is disappointing because Vectibix is similar to Erbitux, a drug sold by Eli Lilly and Bristol-Myers Squibb that is approved for use in head-and-neck cancer.
Merck developed the drug for cancer, but it failed to show efficacy in a trial with patients with advanced head-and-neck cancer.
They looked at head-and-neck cancer, which is often diagnosed late, making it more difficult to treat successfully.
According to clinicaltrials.gov, there are still two ongoing studies of Vectibix in head-and-neck cancer that could be used as part of an approval.
However, one suggested that head-and-neck-cancer patients who took vitamin E did not live as long as those who did not.
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While he was impressed with the results, Pfister says that there is an issue that may make it hard for doctors, patients and insurers to decide how to use the drug: In many cancer centers, patients whose head and neck cancers are of the same severity as those in the trial recieve not only radiation, but also chemotherapy.
Down the road, it could also gain approval for pancreatic, head and neck, and non-small cell lung cancer.
The National Cancer Institute is sponsoring trials that include head-and-neck, kidney, bladder, brain and colon cancers.
The U.S. National Cancer Institute is sponsoring trials that include cancers of the head and neck, kidney, bladder, brain and colon.
But Bristol-Myers hopes to vastly expand this market by testing Erbitux for numerous additional types of cancer, including tumors of the lung, pancreas and head and neck.
Experts have said many of the head and neck tumours they are seeing contain the human papilloma virus (HPV) which is more commonly associated with cervical cancer and, according to Cancer Research UK, can be passed on through kissing.
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