New drug trial aims to boost immune system to fight HPV throat cancer before surgery

NCT ID NCT06254911

Summary

This study is testing if giving an immunotherapy drug called atezolizumab before surgery helps treat early-stage throat cancer caused by HPV. The drug aims to help the patient's own immune system attack the cancer. Researchers will give two doses to 20 patients, then check the tumor's response during surgery and monitor patients for two years.

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Contacts and locations

Locations

  • Emory University Hospital Midtown

    Atlanta, Georgia, 30308, United States

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