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EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF CANCER
卷 63, 期 -, 页码 201-217出版社
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejca.2016.05.005
关键词
Cutaneous melanoma; Tumour thickness; Excisional margins; Sentinel lymph node dissection; Interferon-alpha; Adjuvant treatment; Metastasectomy; Systemic treatment
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资金
- Bristol-Myers Squibb
- Merck Sharp Dohme
- Roche
- Swedish Orphan Biovitrum
- Bayer
- GlaxoSmithKline
- Cancer Research UK [19167] Funding Source: researchfish
Cutaneous melanoma (CM) is potentially the most dangerous form of skin tumour and causes 90% of skin cancer mortality. A unique collaboration of multi-disciplinary experts from the European Dermatology Forum, the European Association of Dermato-Oncology and the European Organisation of Research and Treatment of Cancer was formed to make recommendations on CM diagnosis and treatment, based on systematic literature reviews and the experts' experience. Diagnosis is made clinically using dermoscopy and staging is based upon the AJCC system. CMs are excised with 1-2 cm safety margins. Sentinel lymph node dissection is routinely offered as a staging procedure in patients with tumours >1 mm in thickness, although there is as yet no clear survival benefit for this approach. Interferon-alpha treatment may be offered to patients with stage II and III melanoma as an adjuvant therapy, as this treatment increases at least the disease-free survival and less clear the overall survival (OS) time. The treatment is however associated with significant toxicity. In distant metastasis, all options of surgical therapy have to be considered thoroughly. In the absence of surgical options, systemic treatment is indicated. For first-line treatment particularly in BRAF wildtype patients, immunotherapy with PD-1 antibodies alone or in combination with CTLA-4 antibodies should be considered. BRAF inhibitors like dabrafenib and vemurafenib in combination with the MEK inhibitors trametinib and cobimetinib for BRAF mutated patients should be offered as first or second line treatment. Therapeutic decisions in stage IV patients should be primarily made by an interdisciplinary oncology team ('Tumour Board'). (C) 2016 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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