Melanoma & Skin Cancer

Joseph Stilwill, MD, addresses recent advances in melanoma and the focus of research moving forward.

Jeffrey S. Weber, MD, PhD, deputy director and co-director of the Melanoma Program, NYU Langone’s Perlmutter Cancer Center, 2016 Giant of Cancer Care® in Melanoma, discusses updated data for the Checkmate-238 trial.

Joseph Stilwill, MD, medical oncologist, Sarah Cannon Research Institute, discusses optimal sequencing in melanoma.

Sanjiv S. Agarwala, MD, chief of medical oncology and hematology, St. Luke’s Cancer Center, professor of medicine, Temple University School of Medicine, discusses the impact of combining entinostat with pembrolizumab (Keytruda) across a number of tumor types.

Joseph Stilwill, MD, medical oncologist, Sarah Cannon Research Institute, discusses adjuvant advances in the treatment of patients with melanoma.

The European Medicines Agency’s Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use has recommended approval of nivolumab (Opdivo) as an adjuvant treatment for adult patients with completely resected melanoma with lymph node involvement or metastatic disease

Michael A. Postow, MD, medical oncologist, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, discusses the FDA approval of encorafenib plus binimetinib for the treatment of patients with BRAF-mutant advanced, unresectable or metastatic melanoma.

The FDA has approved the combination of the BRAF inhibitor encorafenib (Braftovi) and the MEK inhibitor binimetinib (Mektovi) for the treatment of patients with BRAF-mutant unresectable or metastatic melanoma, as detected by an FDA-approved test.

The FDA has accepted a supplemental biologics license application for the use of pembrolizumab as an adjuvant treatment for patients with resected, high-risk stage III melanoma.

Paolo A. Ascierto, MD, director of the Unit of Melanoma, Cancer Immunotherapy and Innovative Therapy at the National Tumor Institute Fondazione G. Pascale in Naples, discusses the COLUMBUS trial in melanoma.

Keith T. Flaherty, MD, director, Termeer Center for Targeted Therapy, Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center, professor of medicine, Harvard Medical School, discusses the COLUMBUS trial in patients with BRAF-mutant melanoma.

Danny Rischin, MD, director, Division of Cancer Medicine, head, Department of Medical Oncology, Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre, discusses cemiplimab in cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma.

Combining the CD122-biased cytokine NKTR-214 with the PD-1 inhibitor nivolumab (Opdivo) showed promising antitumor activity, particularly in PD-L1–negative patients.

Personalized therapy based on tumor molecular profiling resulted in improved overall survival for patients with advanced, hard-to-treat cancers.