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Szturz, Petr; Vermorken, Jan B.
Oral oncology, February 2020, 2020-02-00, 20200201, Volume: 101Journal Article
•The existing continuum of cancer care extends the expected survival over one year.•Local ablation should be considered in oligometastatic and oligoprogressive disease.•Traditional chemotherapy improves response with no impact on overall survival.•Cetuximab/platinum/5-fluorouracil improves survival preferentially in oral cancer.•Immune checkpoint inhibition of PD-1 represents the standard second-line therapy. In recurrent and/or metastatic squamous cell carcinoma of the head and neck (R/M-SCCHN), the armamentarium of systemic anti-cancer modalities continues to grow in parallel with innovations in and better integration of local approaches. The backbone of cytotoxic chemotherapy remains cisplatin with 5-fluorouracil or a taxane. In contrast to cisplatin, the tumoricidal activity of carboplatin monotherapy is debatable. Adding the epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) inhibitor cetuximab to a platinum/5-fluorouracil doublet (the so-called EXTREME regimen) produced a statistically but also clinically significant improvement of survival and became thus the standard first-line palliative treatment in adequately fit patients. Interestingly, three large randomized trials (EXTREME, SPECTRUM, and ZALUTE) evaluating different anti-EGFR monoclonal antibodies (cetuximab, panitumumab, and zalutumumab, respectively) demonstrated preferential anti-tumour efficacy in patients with primary cancer in the oral cavity. Modern immunotherapy with immunomodulating antibodies, dubbed immune checkpoint inhibitors, such as anti-programmed cell death protein-1 (anti-PD-1) inhibitors nivolumab and pembrolizumab, showed unprecedented activity in one first-line (KEYNOTE-048) and several second-line trials (CheckMate-141, KEYNOTE-012, KEYNOTE-055, and KEYNOTE-040). In a minority of also heavily-pretreated patients, these agents generate long-lasting responses without the typical chemotherapy-related toxicity, however, at a price of a low overall response rate, rare but potentially life-threatening immune-related adverse events, the risk of hyperprogression, and high costs. In oligometastatic disease, emerging data indicate long-term benefit with locally ablative techniques including metastasectomy and stereotactic radiotherapy of pulmonary but also hepatic and other distant lesions. In the frame of highly-individualized cancer care, a particularly intriguing approach is a combination of systemic and local therapies.
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