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ArticleTherapeutic advances in medical oncology2025

Clinical landscape for patients with head and neck cancers enrolled in phase I trials at a tertiary referral center.

Daria Maria Filippini, Raphael Sanchez, Etienne Bastien, Nicolas Jacquin, Alexandro Paccapelo, Caroline Nhy, Jerzy Klijanienko, Valentin Calugaru, Anne Chilles, Wahib Ghanem and 8 more

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Daria Maria FilippiniDepartment of Experimental, Diagnostic and Specialty Medicine, University of Bologna, Sant' Orsola-Malpighi Hospital, Pietro Albertoni Street, Bologna I-40138, Italy.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3328-7282
Raphael SanchezDepartment of Drug Development and Innovation (D3i), Institut Curie, Paris, France.
Etienne BastienDepartment of Drug Development and Innovation (D3i), Institut Curie, Paris, France.
Nicolas JacquinDepartment of Drug Development and Innovation (D3i), Institut Curie, Paris, France.
Alexandro PaccapeloResearch and Innovation Unit, IRCCS Azienda Ospedaliero-Universitaria di Bologna, Bologna, Italy.
Caroline NhyRadiology Department, Institut Curie Hospital, Paris, France.ORCID https://orcid.org/0009-0009-2660-7381
Jerzy KlijanienkoDepartment of Pathology, Institut Curie, PSL Research University, Paris, France.
Valentin CalugaruDepartment of Radiation Oncology, Institut Curie, Paris, France.
Anne ChillesDepartment of Radiation Oncology, Institut Curie, Paris, France.
Wahib GhanemDepartment of Head and Neck Surgery, Institut Curie, Paris, France.ORCID https://orcid.org/0009-0000-4046-7789
Guillaume RougierDepartment of Head and Neck Surgery, Institut Curie, Paris, France.
Antoine Dubray VautrinDepartment of Head and Neck Surgery, Institut Curie, Paris, France.
Nathalie BadoisDepartment of Head and Neck Surgery, Institut Curie, Paris, France.
Maria LesnikDepartment of Head and Neck Surgery, Institut Curie, Paris, France.
Olivier ChoussyDepartment of Head and Neck Surgery, Institut Curie, Paris, France.
Marie Paule SablinDepartment of Drug Development and Innovation (D3i), Institut Curie, Paris, France.
Christophe Le TourneauDepartment of Drug Development and Innovation (D3i), Institut Curie, Paris, France.
Grégoire MarretDepartment of Drug Development and Innovation (D3i), Institut Curie, Paris, France.

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Abstract

Background: Recent advances in understanding the biology of cancer have resulted in an extensive armamentarium of new therapeutic agents, most often tested on various tumor types at the earliest stages of drug development. However, the clinical impact of these therapies on patients with head and neck cancer (HNC) remains underexplored and requires further evaluation. Objectives: To investigate the clinical outcomes and toxicity profiles of patients with HNC enrolled in phase I trials (Ph1t) at a tertiary referral center over the last decade. Design: A retrospective cohort study was conducted, analyzing data from HNC patients enrolled in phase I trials at the Curie Institute between October 2011 and January 2024. Methods: Data on baseline characteristics, hematologic biomarkers, and outcomes were extracted from medical records. Objective response rate (ORR) and Kaplan-Meier estimates of progression-free survival (PFS) and overall survival (OS) were analyzed. A Cox model was used for the identification of prognostic factors. Results: One hundred and thirty patients were enrolled in Ph1t for recurrent/metastatic (R/M) setting (66.9%), including 20.8% of patients being treated with more than two lines of therapy, followed by locally advanced (LA) treated with radical surgery or exclusive chemo/radiotherapy (17.7%), neoadjuvant (10.0%), and adjuvant (5.4%) Ph1t. Patients were treated with immunotherapy (53.8%), targeted therapy (23.1%), bispecific antibody (8.5%), antibody-drug conjugate (4.6%), and other agents (10.0%). In 122 patients evaluable for response, ORR were 16.5%, 87.0%, and 92.3% in R/M, LA, and neoadjuvant Ph1t, respectively. Median PFS/OS rates were 2.0/8.3, 21.5/38.3, and 20.0/27.4 months in R/M, LA, and neoadjuvant Ph1t, respectively.At multivariable analysis, lower lymphocytes (HR = 0.144; 95% CI: 0.052-0.399; Conclusion: HNC Ph1t show encouraging results in terms of early efficacy signals and safety profiles, emphasizing their value across a variety of clinical settings.

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