ORPHA:500464
Squamous cell carcinoma of the nasal cavity and paranasal sinuses
Also known as: Squamous cell carcinoma of the nasal cavity and sinuses
Publications
26
34.1th percentile
Trials
0
Interventional, condition-specific
Researchers
178
Distinct authors in sample
Gene link
—
Readiness
1/6
Stages with a signal
Clinical definition (Orphanet)
A rare head and neck tumor characterized by a malignant epithelial neoplasm most commonly arising in the maxillary sinus or nasal cavity, occurring as a keratinizing, a non-keratinizing, or a spindle cell (sarcomatoid) type. Patients may present with nasal obstruction, epistaxis, rhinorrhea, swelling, or (at more advances stages) with facial pain and/or paralysis, diplopia, and proptosis. Patients with paranasal sinus tumors present later and at a higher stage than patients with nasal cavity carcinomas. Risk factors are smoking and industrial exposures. High-risk HPV is most frequently associated with the non-keratinizing type.
How rare: 1-9 / 1 000 000 — roughly one to nine people per million. In a city the size of Kolkata, perhaps a few dozen.
Research stages
Trial readiness signals
Where this condition sits on an open-data research pipeline — not how close a treatment is, and not medical advice. Empty stages often mean “not in these databases under this Mondo ID,” not “impossible.”
1/6 stages with a signal
Research-stage checklist from open sources (GenCC, literature, Monarch when enriched, ClinicalTrials.gov). Not a prognosis or care recommendation.
- Gene identifiedNot found
No GenCC disease–gene assertion in this build
- LiteraturePresent
26 matched papers (17 in last 10 years) Source
- Phenotype characterisedNot found
No HPO disease–phenotype associations via Monarch for these Mondo IDs
- Animal modelNot found
No Alliance genotype “model of” associations via Monarch for these Mondo IDs
- Orphan designationNot found
No FDA or EMA orphan-drug designation matched this disease via UMLS or preferred name Source
- Interventional trialNot found
No matched interventional trial under our ClinicalTrials.gov rules
Biology
Genes and phenotypes
Gene–disease validity from GenCC, plus phenotypes and animal models joined from Monarch Initiative via Mondo ID — not a clinical diagnosis aid.
Do we know what causes it?
Not yet — the cause hasn't been pinned down in GenCC.
No strong gene–disease assertion joined for this Orphanet entity.
Phenotypes (Monarch / HPO)
None returned for this Mondo ID. That often means “not linked under this ID,” not “no clinical features.”
Animal models (Monarch / Alliance)
None returned for this Mondo ID. Empty here is not proof that no model organism work exists under another name or gene.
Monarch fetch 2026-07-29
Therapies
Designations, candidates, and chemicals
FDA OOPD and EMA orphan designations, Open Targets clinical candidates, and CTD chemical associations via MyDisease.info. These never change the interventional-trial headline.
Orphan designation (FDA · EMA)
No designation matched this disease via UMLS or preferred name on the FDA OOPD mirror or EMA orphan register. Absence here is not proof that none exists under another wording.
Open Targets candidates
No drugs or clinical candidates returned for this Mondo ID on Open Targets.
CTD chemicals (MyDisease.info)
No CTD chemical associations returned for this Mondo ID.
Literature
Is anyone studying this?
26
26 papers have ever been published on this condition (under this name). For scale, breast cancer has over 700,000. Median papers in the last 10 years for a rare disease in this dataset (publications denominator n=3967) is 59.
26 papers since the earliest indexed year in this search — median last-10-year count for a rare disease in this dataset is 59 (publications denominator n=3967).
17 in the last 10 years · high confidence · 34.1th percentile (publications denominator)
Phrase hits: 26 · MeSH hits: 0
Who's working on it?
178
Distinct author names in 26 sampled papers — named people below.
Who's working on it?
No interventional trial matched this name; these authors publish on it in the sampled literature — a practical starting point for contact.
- 01Chen L2 papers · 2021
ColIege of Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery, Chinese PLA General Hospital, National Clinical Research Center for Otolaryngologic Diseases, Key Lab of Hearing Science, Ministry of Education, Beijing Key Lab of Hearing Impairment for Prevention and Treatment, Beijing, China.
Papers in Europe PMC - 02Dang S2 papers · 2024
Cancer Center, Beijing Tongren Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China.
Papers in Europe PMC - 03Hu Y2 papers · 2025
Department of Immunology, NHC Key Laboratory of Medical Immunology (Peking University), Medicine Innovation Center for Fundamental Research on Major Immunology-related Diseases, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Peking University Health Science Center, Beijing, 100191, China.
Papers in Europe PMC - 04Li W2 papers · 2024
Cancer Center, Beijing Tongren Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China.
Papers in Europe PMC - 05Li X2 papers · 2024
Cancer Center, Beijing Tongren Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China.
Papers in Europe PMC - 06Ma L2 papers · 2021
Department of Radiation Oncology, Chinese People's Liberation Army General Hospital, Beijing, China.
Papers in Europe PMC - 07Zhang S2 papers · 2024
Cancer Center, Beijing Tongren Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China.
Papers in Europe PMC - 08Abiri A1 paper · 2024
Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, University of California, Irvine, Orange, California, United States.
Papers in Europe PMC - 09Adle-Biassette H1 paper · 2023
Pathology Department, DMU DREAM, AP-HP, Hôpital Lariboisière, 75010 Paris, France.
Papers in Europe PMC - 10Ariga H1 paper · 2021
Department of Radiology, Iwate Medical University Hospital, Yahaba-cho, Japan.
Papers in Europe PMC
Clinical research
Is a treatment being tested?
0
interventional trials for this specific condition
No interventional trial testing a treatment matched this specific condition name on ClinicalTrials.gov (observational studies and pan-disease registries are listed separately when present).
Data as of 11 September 2026 · last trial check 11 September 2026
No matched interventional trials. This is true for 77.2% of diseases in the trials denominator (5501 of 7126). Here are the researchers publishing on it.
high confidence · 38.6th percentile (trials denominator)
Recruiting interventional trials
From the matched ClinicalTrials.gov set
No interventional trial testing a treatment was found for this specific condition name on ClinicalTrials.gov.
See who's working on it — people publishing on this disease are often the practical next contact when no trial is listed.
Other registries (secondary)
Broader net from EU CTIS, ISRCTN, and ICTRP when available — deduped against ClinicalTrials.gov IDs already counted above. Dual-model LLM relevance gates what we keep. These rows are not added to the interventional headline.
raw 3 · after dedupe 3 · already on CT.gov 0 · kept 0 · parent 0 · uncertain 3 · dropped 0 · fetched 2026-07-30
Source notes: ictrp: Error: ICTRP public search unavailable (WHO portal is SPA-only; SOAP needs partnership). Tried: https://apps.who.int/tri
No secondary-registry studies passed dual-model relevance for this condition name (after dedupe).
Uncertain / not reviewed (3)
- isrctn·ISRCTN63646763·No longer recruiting·A research study to investigate the safety of setanaxib and helpfulness in the treatment of recurrent or metastatic squamous cell carcinoma of the head and neck
skipped — LLM skipped (--skip-llm)
- isrctn·ISRCTN15983654·Recruiting·Can proton beam therapy improve survival and reduce late side effects compared with standard-of-care intensity-modulated radiotherapy in patients with sinonasal cancer?
skipped — LLM skipped (--skip-llm)
- isrctn·ISRCTN68133429·No longer recruiting·A trial comparing conventional fractionation with 'CHART' in the treatment of head and neck cancer
skipped — LLM skipped (--skip-llm)
Where to find support
Condition-specific patient organisations, when Orphanet lists them, are on the disease’s Orphanet page. We also link umbrella groups that support undiagnosed and ultra-rare families.
Orphanet entry for Squamous cell carcinoma of the nasal cavity and paranasal sinuses — check Associations / patient organisations on that page.
India — NPRD
Last verified 2026-07-26This ORPHAcode is not on our curated NPRD list (direct or Mondo-parent match). That does not decide clinical eligibility; families in India should ask a notified Centre of Excellence about current coverage.
Hand-curated for this project. ORPHAcode mappings are best-effort and may be incomplete or imprecise for umbrella categories. Parent (Mondo) matches mean the policy lists a broader category — confirm eligibility with a Centre of Excellence. Financial entitlements summarised from public policy statements and may change. This is not official government guidance.
How we counted this
Europe PMC query (preferred label + any corrected label + Orphanet and Mondo exact synonyms, stoplisted; unioned with resolved MeSH labels when available). UMLS / OMIM / NCIT cross-references are stored on the overview but are not added to the query string.
"Squamous cell carcinoma of the nasal cavity and paranasal sinuses" OR "Squamous cell carcinoma of nasal cavity and paranasal sinuses" OR "Squamous cell carcinoma of the nasal cavity and sinuses" OR "Squamous cell carcinoma of nasal cavity and sinuses"
ClinicalTrials.gov query (quoted phrases + MeSH via query.cond, plus recall-expansion terms when used):
"Squamous cell carcinoma of the nasal cavity and paranasal sinuses" OR "Squamous cell carcinoma of nasal cavity and paranasal sinuses" OR "Squamous cell carcinoma of the nasal cavity and sinuses" OR "Squamous cell carcinoma of nasal cavity and sinuses"
Study-type breakdown: 0 interventional · 0 observational · 0 expanded access. Only interventional studies enter the trial headline.
Query health: ok — strategies attempted: phrase; with hits: phrase
Run this search on ClinicalTrials.gov
Confidence reasoning
- Preferred label is multi-word and distinctive
- No synonyms dropped by stoplist
- No label/synonym collisions with other diseases in this corpus
Ingested 2026-07-27T17:42:20.314Z