Heikki
Irjala
Clinical Lecturer, Otorhinolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery
Professor, Otorhinolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery
MD, PhD
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Areas of expertise
Otorhinolaryngology
Head and neck surgery
Cancer research
Biography
2002 PhD thesis "An Immunotherapeutic Approach to Cancer of the Head and Neck"
2009 Specialist in Otorhinolaryngology
2014 Adjunct Professor of Otorhinolaryngology
2015 Specialist in Head and Neck Surgery
2017 Special Competence in Medical Education
Teaching
Clinical lecturer (Otorhinolaryngology) 2012-2015
Personal teacher mentor for medical students from 2012
Supervisor of several PhD students
Research
Research is focused on cancer of the head and neck including both clinical aspects (quality of life, treatment methods and outcome, diagnostics, etc.) and basic science like cancer immunology and cell trafficking.
Publications
xCT as a Predictor for Survival in a Population‐Based Cohort of Head and Neck Squamous Cell Carcinoma (2024)
Cancer Medicine
(A1 Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tieteellisessä lehdessä )
Psychosocial factors and patient and healthcare delays in large (class T3-T4) oral, oropharyngeal, and laryngeal carcinomas (2024)
BMC Cancer
(A1 Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tieteellisessä lehdessä )
Assessment of targeted therapy opportunities in sinonasal cancers using patient-derived functional tumor models (2024)
Translational Oncology
(Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tai data-artikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (A1))
Simultaneous p53 and p16 Immunostaining for Molecular Subclassification of Head and Neck Squamous Cell Carcinomas (2024)
Head and Neck Pathology
(A1 Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tieteellisessä lehdessä )
Identification of stemness-related glycosylation changes in head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (2024)
BMC Cancer
(Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tai data-artikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (A1))
Patient and health care delays in large (class T3-T4) oral, oropharyngeal, and laryngeal carcinomas (2023)
Head and Neck
(Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tai data-artikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (A1))
TSPO is a potential independent prognostic factor associated with cellular respiration and p16 in head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (2023)
Frontiers in Oncology
(Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tai data-artikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (A1))
Circulating Tumor DNA in Head and Neck Squamous Cell Carcinoma: Association with Metabolic Tumor Burden Determined with FDG-PET/CT (2023)
Cancers
(Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tai data-artikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (A1))
Programmed death-ligand 1 and tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes (TILs) - low TIL density may predict poorer long-term prognosis in T1 laryngeal cancer (2023)
Virchows Archiv
(A1 Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tieteellisessä lehdessä )
Timing and frequency of oropharyngeal squamous cell carcinoma recurrences after treatment with curative intent (2023)
Acta Oto-laryngologica
(Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tai data-artikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (A1))