July 30, 2024 by Katharine Gammon, University of Southern California Credit: CC0 Public DomainA new paper published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences shows how an amino acid may hold the secrets of oral cancers. Upper aerodigestive squamous cell carcinoma is a common and aggressive malignancy—it attacks more than half a...
by Rachel Sauer, CU Anschutz Medical Campus Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Over the past decade, human papillomavirus (HPV) has increasingly been identified as a significant cause of certain head and neck cancers—for example, evidence suggests it causes 70% of oropharyngeal cancers in the United States. Further, over the past three decades, incidence of HPV-driven cancers...
UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH IMAGE: UMAMAHESWAR DUVVURI, M.D., PH.D., HEAD AND NECK SURGEON AT UPMC HILLMAN CANCER CENTER AND PROFESSOR OF OTOLARYNGOLOGY IN PITT’S SCHOOL OF MEDICINE CREDIT: COURTESY OF UPMC PITTSBURGH, March 14, 2022 — A new study suggests that the malaria drug hydroxychloroquine inhibits pathways that drive resistance to the chemotherapy agent cisplatin in...
The human papillomavirus is fueling an epidemic of head and neck cancer globally, with 100,000 new cases worldwide each year. A new study suggests Taiwan may be in the same spot the United States was a few decades ago when this trend first emerged. But in Taiwan, HPV’s impact is obscured by high rates of tobacco,...
