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 …

Tebentafusp for the treatment of HLA-A* 02: 01–positive adult patients with unresectable or metastatic uveal melanoma

LN Chen, RD Carvajal - Expert review of anticancer therapy, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Introduction Metastatic uveal melanoma is associated with poor prognosis and few treatment
options. Tebentafusp recently became the first FDA-approved agent for metastatic uveal …

Uveal melanoma pathobiology: Metastasis to the liver

P Bustamante, L Piquet, S Landreville… - Seminars in cancer …, 2021 - Elsevier
Uveal melanoma (UM) is a type of intraocular tumor with a propensity to disseminate to the
liver. Despite the identification of the early driver mutations during the development of the …

[HTML][HTML] Targeted next-generation sequencing of 117 routine clinical samples provides further insights into the molecular landscape of uveal melanoma

S Thornton, SE Coupland, L Olohan, JS Sibbring… - Cancers, 2020 - mdpi.com
Uveal melanoma (UM) has well-characterised somatic copy number alterations (SCNA) in
chromosomes 1, 3, 6 and 8, in addition to mutations in GNAQ, GNA11, CYSLTR2, PLCB4 …

Patients presenting with metastases: stage IV uveal melanoma, an international study

G Garg, PT Finger, TT Kivelä, ER Simpson… - British Journal of …, 2022 - bjo.bmj.com
Objective To analyse ocular and systemic findings of patients presenting with systemic
metastasis. Methods and analysis It is an international, multicentre, internet-enabled, registry …

[HTML][HTML] Piloting a deep learning model for predicting nuclear BAP1 immunohistochemical expression of uveal melanoma from hematoxylin-and-eosin sections

H Zhang, H Kalirai, A Acha-Sagredo… - … Vision Science & …, 2020 - jov.arvojournals.org
Background: Uveal melanoma (UM) is the most common primary intraocular malignancy in
adults. Monosomy 3 and BAP1 mutation are strong prognostic factors predicting metastatic …

Translation of single-cell transcriptomic analysis of uveal melanomas to clinical oncology

T Strub, A Martel, S Nahon-Esteve, S Baillif… - Progress in Retinal and …, 2021 - Elsevier
Uveal melanoma (UM) is an aggressive and deadly neoplasm. In recent decades, great
efforts have been made to obtain a more comprehensive understanding of genetics …

[HTML][HTML] MicroRNAs and uveal melanoma: understanding the diverse role of these small molecular regulators

K Aughton, H Kalirai, SE Coupland - International Journal of Molecular …, 2020 - mdpi.com
Uveal melanoma (UM) is a rare tumour of the eye, characterised by a high propensity to
metastasise in half of all patients, most frequently to the liver. Although there are effective …

Updates in the Management of Uveal Melanoma

M Barbi, RD Carvajal, CE Devoe - The Cancer Journal, 2024 - journals.lww.com
Uveal melanoma (UM), arising from intraocular melanocytes, poses a complex clinical
challenge with a substantial risk of distant metastasis, often to the liver. Molecular profiling …

[HTML][HTML] Application of multimodal and molecular imaging techniques in the detection of choroidal melanomas

X Li, L Wang, L Zhang, F Tang, X Wei - Frontiers in oncology, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Choroidal melanomas are the most common ocular malignant tumors worldwide. The onset
of such tumors is insidious, such that affected patients often have no pain or obvious …