"Medford Man Beats Throat Cancer With New Treatment Tested At Local Hospital" - Patricia Nicolas
A Suffolk County man, Chris Burian, participated in a clinical trial that he says helped him beat throat cancer. He turned to Brett Miles, DDS, MD, an associate professor of head and neck surgery at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. Chris had surgery to remove the cancer and participated in a clinical treatment called immunotherapy. The Mount Sinai Hospital is the only place in the country testing the new treatment. “They have two doses of the immune therapy before surgery with the idea being that we ramp up the immune system before the surgical episode and that way, the immune system is already revved up to target these cells before the surgery,” Dr. Miles explained. Today, only a scar on Chris’s neck remains where the cancer once was
- Brett A. Miles, DDS MD FACS, Associate Professor of Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, Co-Chief Division Head and Neck Oncology and Fellowship Director, Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Mount Sinai Health System
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