Epidemiology of melanoma

K Saginala, A Barsouk, JS Aluru, P Rawla, A Barsouk - Medical sciences, 2021 - mdpi.com
Melanoma accounts for 1.7% of global cancer diagnoses and is the fifth most common
cancer in the US. Melanoma incidence is rising in developed, predominantly fair-skinned …

The contemporary management of cancers of the sinonasal tract in adults

R Thawani, MS Kim, A Arastu, Z Feng… - CA: a cancer journal …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Sinonasal malignancies make up< 5% of all head and neck neoplasms, with an incidence of
0.5–1.0 per 100,000. The outcome of these rare malignancies has been poor, whereas …

Cutaneous melanoma: From pathogenesis to therapy

GC Leonardi, L Falzone, R Salemi… - International …, 2018 - spandidos-publications.com
In less than 10 years, melanoma treatment has been revolutionized with the approval of
tyrosine kinase inhibitors and immune checkpoint inhibitors, which have been shown to …

Overcoming immune evasion in melanoma

K Eddy, S Chen - International journal of molecular sciences, 2020 - mdpi.com
Melanoma is the most aggressive and dangerous form of skin cancer that develops from
transformed melanocytes. It is crucial to identify melanoma at its early stages, in situ, as it is …

The current state of molecular testing in the treatment of patients with solid tumors, 2019

WS El‐Deiry, RM Goldberg, HJ Lenz… - CA: a cancer journal …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
The world of molecular profiling has undergone revolutionary changes over the last few
years as knowledge, technology, and even standard clinical practice have evolved. Broad …

Ripretinib (DCC-2618) is a switch control kinase inhibitor of a broad spectrum of oncogenic and drug-resistant KIT and PDGFRA variants

BD Smith, MD Kaufman, WP Lu, A Gupta, CB Leary… - Cancer cell, 2019 - cell.com
Summary Ripretinib (DCC-2618) was designed to inhibit the full spectrum of mutant KIT and
PDGFRA kinases found in cancers and myeloproliferative neoplasms, particularly in …

Cutaneous melanoma

AMM Eggermont, A Spatz, C Robert - The Lancet, 2014 - thelancet.com
In the past decade, major advances have been made in the understanding of melanoma.
New predisposition genes have been reported and key somatic events, such as BRAF …

Imatinib for Melanomas Harboring Mutationally Activated or Amplified KIT Arising on Mucosal, Acral, and Chronically Sun-Damaged Skin

FS Hodi, CL Corless, A Giobbie-Hurder… - Journal of clinical …, 2013 - ascopubs.org
Purpose Amplifications and mutations in the KIT proto-oncogene in subsets of melanomas
provide therapeutic opportunities. Patients and Methods We conducted a multicenter phase …

The molecular pathology of melanoma: an integrated taxonomy of melanocytic neoplasia

BC Bastian - Annual Review of Pathology: Mechanisms of …, 2014 - annualreviews.org
Melanomas comprise multiple biologically distinct categories, which differ in cell of origin,
age of onset, clinical and histologic presentation, pattern of metastasis, ethnic distribution …

KIT as a therapeutic target in metastatic melanoma

RD Carvajal, CR Antonescu, JD Wolchok… - Jama, 2011 - jamanetwork.com
Context Some melanomas arising from acral, mucosal, and chronically sun-damaged sites
harbor activating mutations and amplification of the type III transmembrane receptor tyrosine …