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A Phase Ib Study of Pembrolizumab as Second-Line Therapy for Chinese Patients With Advanced or Metastatic Melanoma (KEYNOTE-151).

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Pembrolizumab was well tolerated and provided clinically meaningful antitumor activity as second-line therapy in Chinese patients with advanced melanoma and two deaths occurred that were unrelated to treatment.
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This article is published in Translational Oncology.The article was published on 2019-06-01 and is currently open access. It has received 80 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Mucosal melanoma & Pembrolizumab.

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Efficacy of PD-1/PD-L1 blockade monotherapy in clinical trials.

TL;DR: The objective response rates (ORRs), progression-free survival (PFS), and overall survival (OS) of PD-1/PD-L1 blockade monotherapy have not been systematically evaluated and vary significantly across cancer types and PD-L 1 expression.
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Immunotherapy in Acral and Mucosal Melanoma: Current Status and Future Directions.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors comprehensively review current knowledge on the clinicopathological characteristics and mutational landscapes of acral and mucosal melanomas, as well as providing an overview of current therapies for patients with these aggressive melanoma subtypes, focusing on available immunotherapeutic interventions.
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Meta-analysis of immune-related adverse events of immune checkpoint inhibitor therapy in cancer patients.

TL;DR: This study aimed to assess the incidence of immune‐related adverse events associated with ICIs and to have a better understanding of irAEs and to be able to manage them systematically.
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The American Joint Committee on Cancer: the 7th Edition of the AJCC Cancer Staging Manual and the Future of TNM

TL;DR: A marked increase in the use of international datasets for more highly evidenced-based changes in staging, and the enhanced use of nonanatomic prognostic factors in defining the stage grouping are notable.
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