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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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Unravelling Tumour Microenvironment in Melanoma at Single-Cell Level and Challenges to Checkpoint Immunotherapy

Xinyu Bai, +1 more
- 28 Sep 2022 - 
TL;DR: The main challenges to current cancer immunotherapy research posed by tumour heterogeneity and microenvironment complexities including genomic and transcriptomic variability, selective outgrowth of tumour subpopulations, spatial and temporal tumours heterogeneity and the dynamic state of host immunity and micro environment orchestration are outlined.
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A phase II study of daily encorafenib in combination with biweekly cetuximab in patients with BRAF V600E mutated metastatic colorectal cancer: the NEW BEACON study

TL;DR: In this paper , the authors investigate the efficacy and tolerability of cetuximab given every second week in combination with daily encorafenib and explore the correlation between markers of resistance and outcome.
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Progress in Research on Tumor Metastasis Inhibitors.

TL;DR: The therapeutic targets and related drugs for tumor metastasis are described and breakthroughs in this area are discussed and the corresponding recent developments in anti-cancer drug discovery are discussed.
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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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