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ReviewTherapeutic advances in medical oncology2022

Neoadjuvant therapy for melanoma: rationale for neoadjuvant therapy and pivotal clinical trials.

Russell G Witt, Derek J Erstad, Jennifer A Wargo

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Review in Therapeutic advances in medical oncology, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 14 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

14 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Review
  2. Neoadjuvant Treatment Approaches to Oral Cancer.Journal of clinical medicine · 2025
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  4. Overcoming Resistance Mechanisms to Melanoma Immunotherapy.American journal of clinical dermatology · 2025
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  7. Neoadjuvant therapy for resectable melanoma.Clinical & experimental metastasis · 2024
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Russell G WittDepartment of Surgical Oncology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3747-8633
Derek J ErstadDepartment of Surgical Oncology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, TX, USA.
Jennifer A WargoDepartment of Surgical Oncology, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, 1515 Holcombe Blvd., Unit 1484, Houston, TX 77030-4009, USA.

Funding

TRAINING OF ACADEMIC SURGICAL ONCOLOGISTST32CA009599 · NCI · UNIVERSITY OF TX MD ANDERSON CAN CTR · PI Ashley M Holder, Jennifer A. Wargo · 1988 to 2026
$13.2M
NCI NIH HHS T32 CA009599
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The treatment of malignant melanoma has drastically changed over the past decade with the advent of immune checkpoint blockade, targeted therapy with BRAF/MEK inhibition, and other novel therapies such as oncolytic virus intralesional therapy. Despite improvements in patient response rates and survival with these new treatments, there exists a large portion of patients with surgically resectable disease that are high risk for relapse. Patients with high-risk resectable melanoma account for up to 20% of newly diagnosed cases. For this high-risk group of patients, neoadjuvant therapy has many purposed advantages over adjuvant therapy, including a more robust immune response due to abundant tumor antigens at treatment initiation, the ability to assess pathologic response to therapy, tumor downstaging leading to increased disease resectability, and a potential decreased need for extensive lymphadenectomies. These findings have been backed by preclinical models and multiple neoadjuvant trials are underway. In this review, we will discuss the trials that have set the foundation for the current treatment standards and discuss the role and rationale for neoadjuvant therapy for high-risk malignant melanomas.

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BRAF/MEK inhibitionimmune checkpoint blockademalignant melanomaneoadjuvant therapy

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PMID35251322
PMCPMC8894940

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