SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (Dakota News Now) - Clinical trials for cancer can help doctors discover better treatments and improve the quality of life for patients.

In this Avera Medical Minute, learn how, in one clinical trial, doctors are using a combination of immunotherapy and photo illumination to help fight cancer in the tongue.

Every few weeks, Jerry Stieneke travels to the Prairie Center in Sioux Falls for his cancer treatment.

He has a squamous cell carcinoma of the tongue.

Since this is a recurrence of a head and neck cancer for Jerry, he had a couple of options when it came to treatment.

“It’s either surgery and lose a decent amount of the tongue or go on treatments that are thought to be more palliative, keeping you alive for a while but not cured, or consider going on this clinical

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