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ReviewCurrent pharmaceutical design2026

Mucosal Melanoma: An Overview of Recent Therapies.

Zachary Griffin, Jane Mattei

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Review in Current pharmaceutical design, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

2 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Zachary GriffinDepartment of Medicine, UT Health Science Center at San Antonio Long School of Medicine, San Antonio, TX 78229, USA.
Jane MatteiDepartment of Hematology Oncology, Mays Cancer Center, UT Health San Antonio, San Antonio, TX 78229, USA.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Mucosal Melanoma (MM) is an aggressive disease that is distinct from cutaneous melanoma in risk factors, prognosis, and treatment. Surgical treatment is currently the treatment of choice for localized disease; however, the recurrence rate is common. For advanced or metastatic disease, immunotherapy with PD-1 inhibitors and anti-CTLA is generally first-line treatment, however the overall responses to immunotherapy in MM are often lower and less robust when compared to that observed in cutaneous melanoma. Adoptive-TIL therapy has shown great promise. Other advances, particularly through the exploration of novel and combination therapies, are a step forward and a hope to improve outcomes in patients with mucosal melanoma. In this review, we summarize current treatment options for MM, and we updated future clinical trials available for this population of patients.

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ImmunotherapyMelanomaMucous MembraneHumanscutaneous melanomaimmunotherapylymph node biopsyMucosal melanomaPD-1 inhibitorsradiation therapy.

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