Skin Cancers | Clinical

January 12, 2021

The FDA granted 2 Fast Track designations to the cavrotolimod for 2, including in combination with anti-PD-1 therapy in patients with locally advanced or metastatic Merkel cell carcinoma who are refractory to prior anti-PD-1 blockade and in combination with anti-PD-1/PD-L1 in patients with locally advanced or metastatic cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma who are refractory to prior anti-PD-1/PD-L1 blockade.

January 11, 2021

For patients with cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma who refuse surgery as a treatment for their disease, systemic therapies like cemiplimab, nivolumab, avelumab, and pembrolizumab can still improve outcomes, explained Asim Amin, MD, PhD, a medical oncologist, Levine Cancer Institute. Atrium Health during a Targeted Oncology Case-Based Peer Perspectives event.

January 07, 2021

Solly Chedid, MD, led a discussion with a group of peers about the treatment of infiltrative basal cell carcinoma in a 88-year-old patient during a Targeted Oncology Case-Based Peer Perspectives event.

December 31, 2020

The plan of treatment for a 69-year-old patient with poorly differentiated, infiltrative, cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma was the topic of discussion among Dan Paul Zandberg, MD, and other clinicians in attendance during a Targeted Oncology Case-Based Peer Perspectives event.

December 29, 2020

During a Targeted Oncology Case-Based Peer Perspective event, Chaitali S. Nangia, MD, reviewed the case of a 75-year-old patient with infiltrative basal cell carcinoma.

November 20, 2020

Ryan C. DeCoste, MD, discusses how comprehensive genomic profiling can be used to identify rare subsets of patients with Merkel cell carcinoma.

November 12, 2020

During a Targeted Oncology Case Based Peer Perspective event, Gino K. In, MD, MPH, assessed the risk status of an 88-year-old patient with basal cell carcinoma and discussed treatment options.

November 03, 2020

During a Targeted Oncology Case Based Peer Perspective event, Anna C. Pavlick, DO, MS, MBA, discussed the case of a 69-year-old patient with cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma.

September 20, 2020

The phase 3 COMBI-I clinical trial of spartalizumab plus dabrafenib and trametinib showed no improvement in investigator-assessed progression-free survival in patients with untreated BRAF V600-mutant unresectable or metastatic melanoma, missing the primary end point in part 3 of the study.

September 19, 2020

In a phase 2 clinical trial, promising clinical activity was observed with cemiplimab in patients with locally advanced basal cell carcinoma who progress on or are intolerant to hedgehog inhibitors, regardless of PD-L1 expression, according to findings presented at the 2020 ESMO Virtual Congress.