Advances in the clinical management of uveal melanoma

RD Carvajal, JJ Sacco, MJ Jager… - Nature Reviews …, 2023 - nature.com
Melanomas arising in the uveal tract of the eye are a rare form of the disease with a biology
and clinical phenotype distinct from their more common cutaneous counterparts. Treatment …

The journey from melanocytes to melanoma

PP Centeno, V Pavet, R Marais - Nature Reviews Cancer, 2023 - nature.com
Over the past decade, melanoma has led the field in new cancer treatments, with impressive
gains in on-treatment survival but more modest improvements in overall survival. Melanoma …

[HTML][HTML] Metastatic uveal melanoma: The final frontier

ES Rantala, MM Hernberg, S Piperno-Neumann… - Progress in Retinal and …, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract Treatment of primary intraocular uveal melanoma has developed considerably, its
driver genes are largely unraveled, and the ways to assess its risk for metastases are very …

[HTML][HTML] Insufficient sun exposure has become a real public health problem

L Alfredsson, BK Armstrong, DA Butterfield… - International Journal of …, 2020 - mdpi.com
This article aims to alert the medical community and public health authorities to
accumulating evidence on health benefits from sun exposure, which suggests that …

[HTML][HTML] MITF in normal melanocytes, cutaneous and uveal melanoma: a delicate balance

MC Gelmi, LE Houtzagers, T Strub, I Krossa… - International journal of …, 2022 - mdpi.com
Microphthalmia-associated transcription factor (MITF) is an important regulator of
melanogenesis and melanocyte development. Although it has been studied extensively in …

Comparative genomics provides etiologic and biological insight into melanoma subtypes

F Newell, PA Johansson, JS Wilmott, K Nones, V Lakis… - Cancer discovery, 2022 - AACR
Melanoma is a cancer of melanocytes, with multiple subtypes based on body site location.
Cutaneous melanoma is associated with skin exposed to ultraviolet radiation; uveal …

[HTML][HTML] The PEMDAC phase 2 study of pembrolizumab and entinostat in patients with metastatic uveal melanoma

L Ny, H Jespersen, J Karlsson, S Alsén, S Filges… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Preclinical studies have suggested that epigenetic therapy could enhance immunogenicity
of cancer cells. We report the results of the PEMDAC phase 2 clinical trial (n= 29; …

[HTML][HTML] Benefits of zebrafish xenograft models in cancer research

X Chen, Y Li, T Yao, R Jia - Frontiers in Cell and Developmental …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
As a promising in vivo tool for cancer research, zebrafish have been widely applied in
various tumor studies. The zebrafish xenograft model is a low-cost, high-throughput tool for …

[HTML][HTML] Future perspectives of uveal melanoma blood based biomarkers

AB Beasley, FK Chen, TW Isaacs, ES Gray - British Journal of Cancer, 2022 - nature.com
Uveal melanoma (UM) is the most common primary intraocular malignancy affecting adults.
Despite successful local treatment of the primary tumour, metastatic disease develops in up …

[HTML][HTML] Conjunctival melanoma: New insights in tumour genetics and immunology, leading to new therapeutic options

NJ Brouwer, RM Verdijk, S Heegaard… - Progress in Retinal and …, 2022 - Elsevier
Recent developments in oncology have led to a better molecular and cellular understanding
of cancer, and the introduction of novel therapies. Conjunctival melanoma (CoM) is a rare …