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Head and neck cancers include cancers in the larynx, throat, lips, mouth, nose and salivary glands. Squamous cell carcinoma, a skin cancer, can occur on any of these organs. Vassiliki Saloura, M.D., Ph.D., Stadtman Investigator in the Thoracic and GI Malignancies Branch, is leading CCR participation in a trial to research photoimmunotherapy with imaging for adults with head and neck or cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma. The trial will take place at the NIH Clinical Center in Bethesda, Maryland, and there is no cost for participation.
For more information, please contact Dr. Vassiliki Saloura, M.D., Ph.D., at (240) 760-6352 or valia.saloura@nih.gov.
Clinicaltrials.gov identifier: NCT05182866
NCI Protocol ID: 000462
Official Title: Phase 2, Open-label, Single-arm, Window of Opportunity Study of ASP-1929 Photoimmunotherapy With Fluorescence Imaging in Patients With Operable Primary or Recurrent Head and Neck or Cutaneous Squamous Cell Carcinoma
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