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ArticleTherapeutic advances in medical oncology2013

New treatment approaches in melanoma: current research and clinical prospects.

Milap G Rughani, Avinash Gupta, Mark R Middleton

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Article in Therapeutic advances in medical oncology, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

8 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Milap G RughaniOxford NIHR Biomedical Research Centre, Churchill Hospital, Oxford, UK.
Avinash Gupta
Mark R Middleton

Funding

Cancer Research UK 8466
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Ipilimumab and vemurafenib have changed the clinical landscape in melanoma. Both drugs offer effective treatment for metastatic melanoma, but with limitations. Ipilimumab benefits only a minority of those treated, with no means to identify them prospectively. The efficacy of vemurafenib is tied to the presence of an activating mutation in BRAF, and so is more predictable. However, acquired resistance develops within months. As we understand these, and similar, agents better, the means to select patients for treatment, to increase the duration of response and to identify the best stage at which to intervene will lead to improved outcomes for patients. Several trials are already under way or being developed to build upon these exciting discoveries.

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clinical managementimmunotherapymelanomatargeted therapy

Identifiers

PMID23323148
PMCPMC3539276

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