Ralf Gutzmer

TL;DR: Dabrafenib significantly improved progression-free survival compared with dacarbazine, and skin-related toxic effects, fever, fatigue, arthralgia, and headache were uncommon in both groups.

TL;DR: Nivolumab led to a greater proportion of patients achieving an objective response and fewer toxic effects than with alternative available chemotherapy regimens for patients with advanced melanoma that has progressed after ipilimumab or ipilicumab and a BRAF inhibitor.

TL;DR: Investigating the roles of tumor-specific neoantigens and alterations in the tumor microenvironment in the response to ipilimumab found no recurrent neoantigen peptide sequences predicted responder patient populations, suggesting detailed integrated molecular characterization of large patient cohorts may be needed to identify robust determinants of response and resistance to immune checkpoint inhibitors.

TL;DR: As adjuvant therapy for high‐risk stage III melanoma, 200 mg of pembrolizumab administered every 3 weeks for up to 1 year resulted in significantly longer recurrence‐free survival than placebo, with no new toxic effects identified.

TL;DR: A "long tail" of new mitogen-activated protein kinase (MAPK) pathway alterations (MAP2K2, MITF) that confer RAF inhibitor resistance are discovered that may model subsequent resistance studies of BRAF(V600)-mutant melanoma.