Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy and Programmed Cell Death Protein 1(PD-1) Inhibition for Head and Neck Cancer Treatment De-escalation (NeoScorch HN)
The NeoScorch HN study is a single institution multisite phase II trial including 3 cohorts of 25 patients each for patients with newly diagnosed locoregionally advanced, histologically confirmed, head and neck cancer eligible for curative-intent treatment, who will receive neo-adjuvant chemoimmunotherapy-based treatment as well as standard of care adjuvant treatment. The three cohorts include three different aspects of surgical de-escalation in head and neck cancer. The first cohort includes human papillomavirus independent (HPV-) squamous cell carcinoma of the head and neck. The second cohor