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ReviewCancer management and research2024

Combination Atezolizumab, Cobimetinib, and Vemurafenib as a Treatment Option in BRAF V600 Mutation-Positive Melanoma: Patient Selection and Perspectives.

Michelle M Dugan, Matthew C Perez, Lilit Karapetyan, Jonathan S Zager

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Review in Cancer management and research, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

4 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. COMBI-I: Long-Term Overall Survival With Spartalizumab Plus Dabrafenib and Trametinib inJournal of clinical oncology : official journal of the American Society of Clinical Oncology · 2026
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Michelle M DuganDepartment of Cutaneous Oncology, Moffitt Cancer Center, Tampa, FL, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-8121-7559
Matthew C PerezDepartment of Cutaneous Oncology, Moffitt Cancer Center, Tampa, FL, USA.
Lilit KarapetyanDepartment of Cutaneous Oncology, Moffitt Cancer Center, Tampa, FL, USA.
Jonathan S ZagerDepartment of Cutaneous Oncology, Moffitt Cancer Center, Tampa, FL, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-6886-4468

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The treatment landscape for advanced and metastatic melanoma has drastically changed in recent years, with the advent of novel therapeutic options such as immune checkpoint inhibitors and targeted therapies offering remarkable efficacy and significantly improved patient outcomes compared to traditional approaches. Approximately 50% of melanomas harbor activating BRAF mutations, with over 90% resulting in BRAF V600E. Tumors treated with BRAF inhibitor monotherapy have a high rate of developing resistance within six months. Combination therapy with MEK inhibitors helped to mitigate this treatment resistance and led to improved outcomes. Due to the up-regulation of PD-1/PD-L1 receptors in tumors treated with BRAF/MEK inhibitor therapy, further studies included a third combination agent, anti-PD-1/PD-L1 inhibitors. This triple combination therapy may have superior efficacy and a manageable safety profile when compared with single or double agent therapy regimens.

Indexed as

BRAF inhibitorBRAF-mutant melanomacombination BRAF therapyMEK inhibitormetastatic melanomatriple therapy

Identifiers

PMID39099762
PMCPMC11296355

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