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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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Combine and conquer: challenges for targeted therapy combinations in early phase trials

TL;DR: The challenges in identifying the best drug combinations and the best combination strategies, as well as the complexities of delivering these treatments to patients are explored.
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Spatially Resolved Transcriptomics Enables Dissection of Genetic Heterogeneity in Stage III Cutaneous Malignant Melanoma.

TL;DR: Using spatial transcriptomics to generate gene expression profiles in melanoma lymph node metastases reveals a complex transcriptional landscape in a spatial context, which is essential for understanding the multiple components of tumor progression and therapy outcome.
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Immunotherapy in melanoma: Recent advances and future directions

TL;DR: Ipilimumab, a monoclonal antibody against the cytotoxic T-lymphocyte antigen 4 (CTLA-4) as well as nivolumab and pembrolizumab which target the programmed cell death protein 1 (PD-1) have been shown to prolong overall survival in patients with advanced melanoma.
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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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