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Ezra E.W. Cohen is a researcher affiliated with the University of California, San Diego in the United States. Their work primarily focuses on medicine with a significant emphasis on oncology, contributing extensively to cancer research.

Their research output includes 360 publications in medicine, with subfields concentrating on oncology (181 publications), pulmonary and respiratory medicine (58), otorhinolaryngology (41), immunology (31), and surgery (28). This indicates a broad engagement with cancer and related medical disciplines.

Ezra E.W. Cohen frequently explores topics such as cancer immunotherapy and biomarkers, head and neck cancer studies, lung cancer treatments and mutations, CAR-T cell therapy research, immunotherapy and immune responses, cancer diagnosis and treatment, and lung cancer research studies.

Some of their recent papers include the following:

  • Avelumab plus standard-of-care chemoradiotherapy versus chemoradiotherapy alone in patients with locally advanced squamous cell carcinoma of the head and neck: a randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled, multicentre, phase 3 trial, 2021, The Lancet Oncology
  • Meta-analysis of chemotherapy in head and neck cancer (MACH-NC): An update on 107 randomized trials and 19,805 patients, on behalf of MACH-NC Group, 2021, Radiotherapy and Oncology
  • Pembrolizumab plus cetuximab in patients with recurrent or metastatic head and neck squamous cell carcinoma: an open-label, multi-arm, non-randomised, multicentre, phase 2 trial, 2021, The Lancet Oncology
  • The Changing Landscape of Therapeutic Cancer Vaccines-Novel Platforms and Neoantigen Identification, 2020, Clinical Cancer Research
  • B Cells Improve Overall Survival in HPV-Associated Squamous Cell Carcinomas and Are Activated by Radiation and PD-1 Blockade, 2020, Clinical Cancer Research

Ezra E.W. Cohen collaborates regularly with several researchers, including:

  • Kevin J. Harrington (26 coauthored works)
  • J. Silvio Gutkind (23)
  • Lisa Licitra (20)
  • Barbara Burtness (18)
  • Joseph A. Califano (17)

Their research is often published in journals such as:

  • Journal of Clinical Oncology (24 publications)
  • Regular and Young Investigator Award Abstracts (19)
  • Annals of Oncology (12)
  • International Journal of Radiation Oncology*Biology*Physics (12)
  • Clinical Cancer Research (10)

Best Publications

  • Guidelines for the use and interpretation of assays for monitoring autophagy (3rd edition)

    Daniel J. Klionsky;Kotb Abdelmohsen;Akihisa Abe;Joynal Abedin

  • Comprehensive genomic characterization of head and neck squamous cell carcinomas

    Michael S. Lawrence;Carrie Sougnez;Lee Lichtenstein;Kristian Cibulskis

  • Pembrolizumab versus methotrexate, docetaxel, or cetuximab for recurrent or metastatic head-and-neck squamous cell carcinoma (KEYNOTE-040): a randomised, open-label, phase 3 study

    Ezra E W Cohen;Denis Soulières;Christophe Le Tourneau;Christophe Le Tourneau;Christophe Le Tourneau;José Dinis

  • Cabozantinib in Progressive Medullary Thyroid Cancer

    Rossella Elisei;Martin J. Schlumberger;Stefan P. Müller;Patrick Schöffski

  • PI3Kγ is a molecular switch that controls immune suppression

    Megan M. Kaneda;Karen S. Messer;Natacha Ralainirina;Hongying Li

  • Guidelines for the use and interpretation of assays for monitoring autophagy (3rd edition)

    Daniel J. Klionsky;Kotb Abdelmohsen;Akihisa Abe;Joynal Abedin

  • Phase II Trial of ZD1839 in Recurrent or Metastatic Squamous Cell Carcinoma of the Head and Neck

    Ezra E. W. Cohen;Fred Rosen;Walter M. Stadler;Wendy Recant

  • Axitinib Is an Active Treatment for All Histologic Subtypes of Advanced Thyroid Cancer: Results From a Phase II Study

    Ezra E.W. Cohen;Lee S. Rosen;Everett E. Vokes;Merrill S. Kies

  • Integrative and comparative genomic analysis of HPV-positive and HPV-negative head and neck squamous cell carcinomas

    Tanguy Y Seiwert;Zhixiang Zuo;Michaela K Keck;Arun Khattri

  • Predictors of Competing Mortality in Advanced Head and Neck Cancer

    Loren K. Mell;James J. Dignam;Joseph K. Salama;Ezra E.W. Cohen

  • Activity of XL184 (cabozantinib), an oral tyrosine kinase inhibitor, in patients with medullary thyroid cancer

    Razelle Kurzrock;Steven I. Sherman;Douglas W. Ball;Arlene A. Forastiere

  • American Cancer Society Head and Neck Cancer Survivorship Care Guideline.

    Ezra E. W. Cohen;Samuel J. LaMonte;Nicole L. Erb;Kerry L. Beckman

  • The Society for Immunotherapy of Cancer consensus statement on immunotherapy for the treatment of squamous cell carcinoma of the head and neck (HNSCC)

    Ezra E.W. Cohen;R. Bryan Bell;Carlo B. Bifulco;Barbara Burtness

  • Phase III Randomized Trial of Induction Chemotherapy in Patients With N2 or N3 Locally Advanced Head and Neck Cancer

    Ezra E W Cohen;Theodore G. Karrison;Masha Kocherginsky;Jeffrey Mueller

  • Afatinib versus methotrexate as second-line treatment in patients with recurrent or metastatic squamous-cell carcinoma of the head and neck progressing on or after platinum-based therapy (LUX-Head & Neck 1): an open-label, randomised phase 3 trial

    Jean Pascal H Machiels;Robert I. Haddad;Jérôme Fayette;Lisa F. Licitra

  • Characterization of HPV and host genome interactions in primary head and neck cancers.

    Michael Parfenov;Chandra Sekhar Pedamallu;Nils Gehlenborg;Nils Gehlenborg;Samuel S. Freeman

  • Phase III study of gefitinib compared with intravenous methotrexate for recurrent squamous cell carcinoma of the head and neck [corrected].

    J. Simon W. Stewart;Ezra E.W. Cohen;Lisa Licitra;Carla M.L. Van Herpen

  • Avelumab plus standard-of-care chemoradiotherapy versus chemoradiotherapy alone in patients with locally advanced squamous cell carcinoma of the head and neck: a randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled, multicentre, phase 3 trial.

    Nancy Y Lee;Robert L Ferris;Amanda Psyrri;Robert I Haddad

  • Evidence-Based Clinical Recommendations Regarding Screening for Oral Squamous Cell Carcinomas

    Michael P. Rethman;William Carpenter;Ezra E W Cohen;Joel Epstein

  • Evidence for protein X binding to a discontinuous epitope on the cellular prion protein during scrapie prion propagation (species barrieryCreutzfeldt-Jakob diseaseydominant negative)

    Kiyotoshi Kaneko;Laurence Zulianello;Michael Scott;Carol M. Cooper

Frequent Co-Authors

Everett E. Vokes
Everett E. Vokes University of Chicago
Theodore Karrison
Theodore Karrison University of Chicago
Lisa Licitra
Lisa Licitra University of Milan
Robert I. Haddad
Robert I. Haddad Harvard University
Kevin J. Harrington
Kevin J. Harrington Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust
Mark J. Ratain
Mark J. Ratain University of Chicago
Scott M. Lippman
Scott M. Lippman University of California, San Diego
Robert L. Ferris
Robert L. Ferris University of Pittsburgh
Joseph A. Califano
Joseph A. Califano University of California, San Diego
Ravi Salgia
Ravi Salgia City Of Hope National Medical Center

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