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Dabrafenib and trametinib versus dabrafenib and placebo for Val600 BRAF-mutant melanoma: a multicentre, double-blind, phase 3 randomised controlled trial

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The improvement in overall survival establishes the combination of dabrafenib and trametinib as the standard targeted treatment for BRAF Val600 mutation-positive melanoma.
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This article is published in The Lancet.The article was published on 2015-08-01. It has received 1099 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Dabrafenib & Trametinib.

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Dabrafenib in patients with BRAF -mutated non-small cell lung cancer

TL;DR: Molecular targeted drugs have been reported to demonstrate dramatic efficacy in patients with EGFR mutation-positive and ALK -rearranged advanced NSCLC, respectively, but other targeted treatment options for patients with advancedNSCLC have so far been limited.
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Cost-Effectiveness of Pembrolizumab for the Adjuvant Treatment of Melanoma Patients with Lymph Node Involvement Who Have Undergone Complete Resection in Argentina

TL;DR: In this article, the authors evaluated the cost-effectiveness of pembrolizumab in Argentina, where watchful waiting is still widely used among these patients despite the high risk of recurrence with surgery alone.
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The combination of vemurafenib and cobimetinib in advanced melanoma

TL;DR: The mechanism of action of both vemurafenib and cobimetinib is covered, in addition to describing results from the key Phase I and Phase III studies which led to registration of the combination in the US and Europe as a therapeutic option for advanced BRAF mutant melanoma.
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Immunotolerance as a Mechanism of Resistance to Targeted Therapies in Melanoma.

TL;DR: Preclinical and clinical data supporting the immunomodulating activities of targeted therapies, the immunotolerance as a mechanisms of resistance and the rationale for novel combinations of targeted medicines and immunotherapies with the potential to significantly improve the future treatment of MM patients are discussed.
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BRAF-inhibitors can exert control of disease in BRAF T599I mutated melanoma: a case report.

TL;DR: The case of a young woman with metastatic melanoma with a particular BRAF mutation, T599I, who has benefited from treatment with a BRAF inhibitor, vemurafenib is described.
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A multiple testing procedure for clinical trials.

TL;DR: The overall size of the procedure is shown to be controlled with virtually the same accuracy as the single sample chi-square test based on N(m1 + m2) observations and the power is found to bevirtually the same.
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