ArticleAnnals of surgical oncology2012
Use of S-100B to evaluate therapy effects during bevacizumab induction treatment in AJCC stage III melanoma.
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- Neoadjuvant treatment for stage III and IV cutaneous melanoma.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2023Pooled it
- S100B induces angiogenesis via the clathrin/FOXO1/β-catenin signaling pathway and contributes to Bevacizumab resistance in epithelial ovarian cancer.Journal of advanced research · 2026Article
- Transforming Diagnosis and Therapeutics Using Cancer Genomics.Cancer treatment and research · 2023Article
- Precision Medicine and Melanoma: Multi-Omics Approaches to Monitoring the Immunotherapy Response.International journal of molecular sciences · 2021Review
- Expression and clinical significance of S100 family genes in patients with melanoma.Melanoma research · 2019Article
- PreoperativeMelanoma management · 2018Article
- Prognostic value of the S100B protein in newly diagnosed and recurrent glioma patients: a serial analysis.Journal of neuro-oncology · 2016Article
- Evidence of Th2 polarization of the sentinel lymph node (SLN) in melanoma.Oncoimmunology · 2015Article
- Diagnostic and prognostic biomarkers in melanoma.The Journal of clinical and aesthetic dermatology · 2014Review
- Metastatic melanoma - a review of current and future drugs.Drugs in context · 2012Review
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Abstract
aimTo investigate the feasibility of using bevacizumab to improve the survival of American Joint Committee on Cancer (AJCC) stage III melanoma patients, we investigated how a single bevacizumab treatment affected nodal disease and a panel of biomarkers in clinically fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography (FDG-PET)/computed tomography (CT)-staged, stage III melanoma patients, prior to therapeutic lymph node dissection (TLND).
methodsFour weeks before TLND, nine patients (median age 50, range 28.8-62.1 years; two male, seven female) with palpable lymph node metastases received 7.5 mg/kg bevacizumab. Before and after this treatment, all patients were assessed by measurements of the maximum standardized uptake value (SUVmax) by FDG-PET scan, and serum S-100B and lactate dehydrogenase (LDH). After TLND, the dissection specimen was analyzed for number of removed lymph nodes, number of metastatic lymph nodes, and tumor necrosis.
resultsMedian follow-up was 15.5 (2.2-32.9) months. Histopathological analysis revealed tumor necrosis in six patients, of whom five had an S-100B decline and one had an unchanged S-100B level after bevacizumab. The other three patients showed an S-100B increase and no necrosis. Tumor necrosis was correlated with S-100B decrease (P = 0.048). No association was found between necrosis and the markers SUVmax and LDH. No wound healing disturbances were encountered.
conclusionTumor necrosis in dissection specimens was associated with declining S-100B levels, while elevated S-100B was only found in cases with no necrosis. Bevacizumab might be useful in treating AJCC stage III melanoma patients prior to TLND, and S100-B appears to be a useful marker for assessment of treatment effects.
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