[HTML][HTML] Treatment of advanced melanoma in 2020 and beyond

RW Jenkins, DE Fisher - Journal of Investigative Dermatology, 2021 - Elsevier
The melanoma field has seen an unprecedented set of clinical advances over the past
decade. Therapeutic efficacy for advanced or metastatic melanoma went from being one of …

MEK inhibitor resistance mechanisms and recent developments in combination trials

E Kun, YTM Tsang, CW Ng, DM Gershenson… - Cancer treatment …, 2021 - Elsevier
The mitogen-activated protein kinase (MAPK) pathway plays a vital role in cellular
processes such as gene expression, cell proliferation, cell survival, and apoptosis. Also …

Personalized response-directed surgery and adjuvant therapy after neoadjuvant ipilimumab and nivolumab in high-risk stage III melanoma: the PRADO trial

ILM Reijers, AM Menzies, ACJ Van Akkooi… - Nature medicine, 2022 - nature.com
Neoadjuvant ipilimumab and nivolumab induces high pathologic response rates (pRRs) in
clinical stage III nodal melanoma, and pathologic response is strongly associated with …

Survival and biomarker analyses from the OpACIN-neo and OpACIN neoadjuvant immunotherapy trials in stage III melanoma

EA Rozeman, EP Hoefsmit, ILM Reijers, RPM Saw… - Nature medicine, 2021 - nature.com
Neoadjuvant ipilimumab plus nivolumab showed high pathologic response rates (pRRs) in
patients with macroscopic stage III melanoma in the phase 1b OpACIN (NCT02437279) and …

Multiomic profiling of checkpoint inhibitor-treated melanoma: Identifying predictors of response and resistance, and markers of biological discordance

F Newell, IP da Silva, PA Johansson, AM Menzies… - Cancer cell, 2022 - cell.com
We concurrently examine the whole genome, transcriptome, methylome, and immune cell
infiltrates in baseline tumors from 77 patients with advanced cutaneous melanoma treated …

TMB and inflammatory gene expression associated with clinical outcomes following immunotherapy in advanced melanoma

FS Hodi, JD Wolchok, D Schadendorf, J Larkin… - Cancer Immunology …, 2021 - AACR
Outcomes for patients with melanoma have improved over the past decade as a result of the
development and FDA approval of immunotherapies targeting cytotoxic T lymphocyte …

Combined PD-1, BRAF and MEK inhibition in advanced BRAF-mutant melanoma: safety run-in and biomarker cohorts of COMBI-i

R Dummer, C Lebbé, V Atkinson, M Mandalà… - Nature medicine, 2020 - nature.com
Immune and targeted therapies achieve long-term survival in metastatic melanoma;
however, new treatment strategies are needed to improve patients' outcomes,. We report on …

[HTML][HTML] Survival update of neoadjuvant ipilimumab plus nivolumab in macroscopic stage III melanoma in the OpACIN and OpACIN-neo trials

JM Versluis, AM Menzies, K Sikorska, EA Rozeman… - Annals of …, 2023 - Elsevier
Background Neoadjuvant ipilimumab plus nivolumab has yielded high response rates in
patients with macroscopic stage III melanoma. These response rates translated to high short …

[PDF][PDF] Adjuvant nivolumab versus ipilimumab in resected stage III/IV melanoma: 5-year efficacy and biomarker results from CheckMate 238

J Larkin, M Del Vecchio, M Mandalá, H Gogas… - Clinical cancer …, 2023 - AACR
Purpose: In the phase III CheckMate 238 study, adjuvant nivolumab significantly improved
recurrence-free survival (RFS) and distant metastasis-free survival versus ipilimumab in …

Immunomodulatory properties of PI3K/AKT/mTOR and MAPK/MEK/ERK inhibition augment response to immune checkpoint blockade in melanoma and triple-negative …

Z Zhang, A Richmond, C Yan - International journal of molecular sciences, 2022 - mdpi.com
Hyperactivation of PI3K/AKT/mTOR and MAPK/MEK/ERK signaling pathways is commonly
observed in many cancers, including triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) and melanoma …