UPCI HNC SPORE Update

In this presentation, Dr. Hassane Zarour and Dr. Robert Ferris each present updates from University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute (UPCI) Head and Neck Cancer Specialized Program of Research Excellence (SPORE). Dr. Zarour discusses updates from the Melanoma SPORE and Dr. Ferris provides updates and an overview of the investigators and the projects in head and neck cancer.

Educational objectives:

Upon completion of this activity, participants should be able to:

  • Review the 4 themes of the projects comprising UPCI Spore in Melanoma and Skin Cancer
  • Recognize the role of adjuvant therapy in melanoma
  • Recognize limitations of PD-1 monotherapy in melanoma
  • Identify the role of translational research in head and neck cancer
  • Review the progression of oral premalignancy to invasive cancer and strategies for cancer prevention
  • Identify immune escape mechanisms and immune checkpoint immunotherapy

Reading Resources:

  1. PC Tumeh et al. Nature 515, 568-571 (2014)
  2. Gajewski et al, Current Opinion in Immunology, 2013
  3. Ferris RL, Immunology and Immunotherapy of Head and Neck Cancer. J Clinical Oncology 2015
  4. Bauman, JE et al, Cancer Prev Res (Phila). 2016 Jul;9(7):547-57

Disclosures:

Dr. Zaour has financial interests with the following entity or entities producing health care goods or services as indicated below:

  • Grant/Research Support: NIH, DOD, Bristol-Myers Squibb and Merck

Dr. Ferris has financial interests with the following any entity or entities producing health care goods or services as indicated below:

  • Grant/Research Support: AstraZeneca/MedImmune, BMS, Merck, VentriRx Pharmaceuticals
  • Other: Advisory Board: Astra-Zeneca/MedImmune, BMS, Lilly, Merck, Pfizer

All presenters disclosure of relevant financial relationships with any entity producing, marketing, re-selling, or distributing health care goods or services, used on, or consumed by, patients is listed above.  No other planners, members of the planning committee, speakers, presenters, authors, content reviewers and/or anyone else in a position to control the content of this education activity have relevant financial relationships to disclose.

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Release Date: 4/13/2017 | Last Modified On: 4/13/2017 | Expires: 4/13/2020