Molecular profiling for precision cancer therapies

ER Malone, M Oliva, PJB Sabatini, TL Stockley… - Genome medicine, 2020 - Springer
The number of druggable tumor-specific molecular aberrations has grown substantially in
the past decade, with a significant survival benefit obtained from biomarker matching …

Talimogene laherparepvec (T-VEC) and other oncolytic viruses for the treatment of melanoma

PK Bommareddy, A Patel, S Hossain… - American journal of …, 2017 - Springer
Many mammalian viruses have properties that can be commandeered for the treatment of
cancer. These characteristics include preferential infection and replication in tumor cells, the …

Guidelines of care for the management of primary cutaneous melanoma

SM Swetter, H Tsao, CK Bichakjian… - Journal of the American …, 2019 - Elsevier
The incidence of primary cutaneous melanoma continues to increase each year. Melanoma
accounts for the majority of skin cancer–related deaths, but treatment is usually curative …

Completion dissection or observation for sentinel-node metastasis in melanoma

MB Faries, JF Thompson, AJ Cochran… - … England Journal of …, 2017 - Mass Medical Soc
Background Sentinel-lymph-node biopsy is associated with increased melanoma-specific
survival (ie, survival until death from melanoma) among patients with node-positive …

Guidelines of care for the management of primary cutaneous melanoma

CK Bichakjian, AC Halpern, TM Johnson… - Journal of the American …, 2011 - Elsevier
The incidence of primary cutaneous melanoma has been increasing dramatically for several
decades. Melanoma accounts for the majority of skin cancer–related deaths, but treatment is …

Vulvar cancer

D Weinberg… - Obstetrics and Gynecology …, 2019 - obgyn.theclinics.com
There will be an estimated 6190 new cases of vulvar cancer in 2018, accounting for 0.4% of
all cancers. This is primarily a disease of the elderly with a median age at diagnosis of 68 …

Malignant melanoma of the vulva and vagina: a US population-based study of 1863 patients

C Wohlmuth, I Wohlmuth-Wieser, T May… - American Journal of …, 2020 - Springer
Abstract Background Vulvar melanoma (VuM) and vaginal melanoma (VaM) represent a
unique subgroup of malignant melanomas with important differences in biology and …

Unusual clinical presentations of malignant melanoma: a review of clinical and histologic features with special emphasis on dermatoscopic findings

R Cabrera, F Recule - American journal of clinical dermatology, 2018 - Springer
This review presents the main challenges encountered when diagnosing unusual variants of
malignant melanoma with the aim of raising awareness to allow application of the most …

Use of first-line immune checkpoint inhibitors and association with overall survival among patients with metastatic melanoma in the anti–PD-1 era

N Lamba, PA Ott, JB Iorgulescu - JAMA Network Open, 2022 - jamanetwork.com
Importance In 2015, first-line programmed cell death 1 (PD-1) immune checkpoint inhibitors
(ICI) were Food and Drug Administration (FDA)-approved and National Comprehensive …

Allosteric MEK1/2 inhibitors including cobimetanib and trametinib in the treatment of cutaneous melanomas

R Roskoski Jr - Pharmacological Research, 2017 - Elsevier
Abstract The Ras-Raf-MEK-ERK (Map kinase) cellular pathway is a highly conserved
eukaryotic signaling module that transduces extracellular signals from growth factors and …