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Beyond BRAF: where next for melanoma therapy?


ABSTRACT: In recent years, melanoma has become a poster-child for the development of oncogene-directed targeted therapies. This approach, which has been exemplified by the development of small-molecule BRAF inhibitors and the BRAF/MEK inhibitor combination for BRAF-mutant melanoma, has brought new hope to patients. Despite these successes, treatment failure seems near inevitable in the majority of cases—even in individuals treated with the BRAF/MEK inhibitor doublet. In the current review, we discuss the future of combination strategies for patients with BRAF-mutant melanoma as well as the emerging therapeutic options for patients with NRAS-mutant and BRAF/NRAS-wild-type melanoma. We also outline some of the newest developments in the in-depth personalisation of therapy that should allow melanoma treatment to continue shaping the field precision cancer medicine.

SUBMITTER: Fedorenko IV 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4453440 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Beyond BRAF: where next for melanoma therapy?

Fedorenko I V IV   Gibney G T GT   Sondak V K VK   Smalley K S M KS   Smalley K S M KS  

British journal of cancer 20140902 2


In recent years, melanoma has become a poster-child for the development of oncogene-directed targeted therapies. This approach, which has been exemplified by the development of small-molecule BRAF inhibitors and the BRAF/MEK inhibitor combination for BRAF-mutant melanoma, has brought new hope to patients. Despite these successes, treatment failure seems near inevitable in the majority of cases—even in individuals treated with the BRAF/MEK inhibitor doublet. In the current review, we discuss the  ...[more]

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