Pulsed Dose Chemotherapy Plus Pembrolizumab in Recurrent/Metastatic HNSCC

Immunotherapy that works by helping the immune system to kill cancer cells by targeting and blocking a protein called PD-1 on the surface of certain immune cells called T-cells. Blocking PD-1 triggers the T-cells to find and kill cancer cells.

A chemotherapy drug that contains the metal platinum. It stops or slows the growth of cancer cells and other rapidly growing cells by damaging their DNA.

A chemotherapeutic agent used as a treatment for various cancers; paclitaxel is a mitotic inhibitor.