
|Videos|May 12, 2017
Treatment of Malignant Melanoma
Treatment of Malignant Melanoma
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- A 46-year-old Caucasian female presented one year ago with deep ulcerated primary tumor and multiple involved lymph nodes.
- She was diagnosed with stage IIIC melanoma.
- Patient underwent wide local incision and compete lymph node dissection and appeared to be clear of disease.
- Patient decided not to pursue adjuvant therapy after surgery.
- Six months after surgery, she developed abdominal pain.
- Imaging showed multiple masses in the liver, > 1 cm, scattered pulmonary nodules and some enlarged lymph nodes.
- Tumor biopsy confirmed melanoma and mutational analysis showed BRAF V600E mutation.
- The patient is started on dabrafenib 150 mg bid and trametinib 2 mg qd.
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