[HTML][HTML] Immunotherapy in melanoma: recent advances and future directions

A Knight, L Karapetyan, JM Kirkwood - Cancers, 2023 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary Immunotherapy has demonstrated the ability to reduce the risk of
recurrence for melanoma following surgical resection and improve survival in patients with …

[HTML][HTML] Liquid biopsy approaches to capture tumor evolution and clinical outcomes during cancer immunotherapy

L Sivapalan, JC Murray, JVL Canzoniero… - … for immunotherapy of …, 2023 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Circulating cell-free tumor DNA (ctDNA) can serve as a real-time biomarker of tumor burden
and provide unique insights into the evolving molecular landscape of cancers under the …

[HTML][HTML] Adjuvant nivolumab in resected stage IIB/C melanoma: primary results from the randomized, phase 3 CheckMate 76K trial

JM Kirkwood, M Del Vecchio, J Weber, C Hoeller… - Nature Medicine, 2023 - nature.com
Patients with resected stage IIB/C melanoma have high recurrence risk, similar to those with
resected stage IIIA/B disease. The phase 3, double-blind CheckMate 76K trial assessed 790 …

Phase II LEAP-004 study of lenvatinib plus pembrolizumab for melanoma with confirmed progression on a programmed cell death protein-1 or programmed death …

A Arance, L De La Cruz-Merino… - Journal of Clinical …, 2023 - ingentaconnect.com
PURPOSE Effective treatments are needed for melanoma that progresses on inhibitors of
programmed cell death protein-1 (PD-1) or its ligand (PD-L1). We conducted the phase II …

Systemic therapy for melanoma: ASCO guideline update

R Seth, SS Agarwala, H Messersmith… - Journal of Clinical …, 2023 - ingentaconnect.com
PURPOSE To provide guidance to clinicians regarding the use of systemic therapy for
melanoma. METHODS American Society of Clinical Oncology convened an Expert Panel …

[HTML][HTML] Increasing cure rates of solid tumors by immune checkpoint inhibitors

W Ma, R Xue, Z Zhu, H Farrukh, W Song, T Li… - … Hematology & Oncology, 2023 - Springer
Immunotherapy has become the central pillar of cancer therapy. Immune checkpoint
inhibitors (ICIs), a major category of tumor immunotherapy, reactivate preexisting anticancer …

Neoadjuvant checkpoint immunotherapy and melanoma: the time is now

GV Long, AM Menzies… - Journal of Clinical …, 2023 - ingentaconnect.com
The role of neoadjuvant therapy is undergoing an historic shift in oncology. The emergence
of potent immunostimulatory anticancer agents has transformed neoadjuvant therapy from a …

[HTML][HTML] Deep learning-based scoring of tumour-infiltrating lymphocytes is prognostic in primary melanoma and predictive to PD-1 checkpoint inhibition in melanoma …

E Chatziioannou, J Roßner, TN Aung, DL Rimm… - …, 2023 - thelancet.com
Background Recent advances in digital pathology have enabled accurate and standardised
enumeration of tumour-infiltrating lymphocytes (TILs). Here, we aim to evaluate TILs as a …

Lymph nodes: at the intersection of cancer treatment and progression

NE Reticker-Flynn, EG Engleman - Trends in Cell Biology, 2023 - cell.com
Metastasis to lymph nodes (LNs) is a common feature of disease progression in most solid
organ malignancies. Consequently, LN biopsy and lymphadenectomy are common clinical …

Survival after introduction of adjuvant treatment in stage III melanoma: a nationwide registry-based study

H Helgadottir, L Ny, GJ Ullenhag… - JNCI: Journal of the …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Background Adjuvant treatments with PD-1 and BRAF+ MEK inhibitors statistically
significantly prolong recurrence-free survival in stage III cutaneous melanoma. Yet, the effect …