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ArticleJournal of translational medicine2020

Perspectives in melanoma: meeting report from the "Melanoma Bridge" (December 5th-7th, 2019, Naples, Italy).

Paolo A Ascierto, Igor Puzanov, Sanjiv S Agarwala, Christian Blank, Richard D Carvajal, Sandra Demaria, Reinhard Dummer, Marc Ernstoff, Soldano Ferrone, Bernard A Fox and 14 more

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Article in Journal of translational medicine, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

6 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

24 authors.

Paolo A AsciertoUnit of Melanoma, Cancer Immunotherapy and Innovative Therapy, Istituto Nazionale Tumori IRCCS "Fondazione G. Pascale", Via Mariano Semmola, 80131, Naples, Italy. paolo.ascierto@gmail.com.ORCID 0000-0002-8322-475X
Igor PuzanovRoswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center, Buffalo, NY, USA.
Sanjiv S AgarwalaTemple University School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, USA.
Christian BlankNetherlands Cancer Institute, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Richard D CarvajalColumbia University Irving Medical Center, Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA.
Sandra DemariaDepartment of Radiation Oncology, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, USA.
Reinhard DummerDepartment of Dermatology, University of Zurich Hospital, Zurich, Switzerland.
Marc ErnstoffRoswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center, Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, State University, Buffalo, NY, USA.
Soldano FerroneDepartment of Surgery, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
Bernard A FoxEarle A. Chiles Research Institute, Robert W. Franz Cancer Research Center, Providence Cancer Institute, Portland, OR, USA.
Thomas F GajewskiDepartment of Pathology, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA.
Claus GarbeCenter for Dermatooncology, Department of Dermatology, Eberhard Karls University, Tübingen, Germany.
Patrick HwuDepartment of Melanoma Medical Oncology, Division of Cancer Medicine, Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA.
Roger S LoJonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
Georgina V LongMelanoma Institute Australia, The University of Sydney and Royal North Shore and Mater Hospitals, Sydney, Australia.
Jason J LukeMedicine University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA.
Iman OsmanThe Interdisciplinary Melanoma Program, New York University Langone Medical Center, NYU Grossman Medical School, New York, NY, USA.
Michael A PostowMemorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center and Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, NY, USA.
Ryan J SullivanMelanoma Program, Mass General Cancer Center, Boston, MA, USA.
Janis M TaubeDivision of Dermatopathology, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA.
Giorgio TrinchieriLaboratory of Integrative Cancer Immunology, Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA.
Hassane M ZarourHillman Cancer Center, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, USA.
Corrado CaracòDepartment Melanoma, Soft Tissue, Muscle-Skeletal and Head-Neck, Istituto Nazionale Tumori IRCCS "Fondazione G. Pascale", Naples, Italy.
Magdalena ThurinCancer Diagnosis Program, Division of Cancer Treatment and Diagnosis, NCI, Bethesda, MD, USA.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The melanoma treatment landscape changed in 2011 with the approval of the first anti-cytotoxic T-lymphocyte-associated protein (CTLA)-4 checkpoint inhibitor and of the first BRAF-targeted monoclonal antibody, both of which significantly improved overall survival (OS). Since then, improved understanding of the tumor microenvironment (TME) and tumor immune-evasion mechanisms has resulted in new approaches to targeting and harnessing the host immune response. The approval of new immune and targeted therapies has further improved outcomes for patients with advanced melanoma and other combination modalities are also being explored such as chemotherapy, radiotherapy, electrochemotherapy and surgery. In addition, different strategies of drugs administration including sequential or combination treatment are being tested. Approaches to overcome resistance and to potentiate the immune response are being developed. Increasing evidence emerges that tissue and blood-based biomarkers can predict the response to a therapy. The latest findings in melanoma research, including insights into the tumor microenvironment and new biomarkers, improved understanding of tumor immune response and resistance, novel approaches for combination strategies and the role of neoadjuvant and adjuvant therapy, were the focus of discussions at the Melanoma Bridge meeting (5-7 December, 2019, Naples, Italy), which are summarized in this report.

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ImmunotherapyMelanomaCombined Modality TherapyCTLA-4 AntigenHumansItalyTumor MicroenvironmentCTLA-4 AntigenAdjuvantAnti-CTLA-4Anti-PD-1BiomarkersBRAF inhibitorCAR-TCombination strategiesImmunotherapyMEK inhibitorMelanomaNeoadjuvantTarget therapy

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PMCPMC7487701

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