TY - JOUR
AU - Schumann, Katharina
AU - Klespe, Kai Christian
AU - Mauch, Cornelia
AU - Loquai, Carmen
AU - Schultheis, Ulrike
AU - Börger, Sevil
AU - Thiem, Alexander
AU - Emmert, Steffen
AU - Hoellwerth, Magdalena
AU - Koelbinger, Peter
AU - Nguyen, Van Anh
AU - Wanner, Marina
AU - Richtig, Erika
AU - Peitsch, Wiebke K
AU - Harth, Wolfgang
AU - Zenderowski, Veronika
AU - Braun, Andreas Dominik
AU - Mengoni, Miriam
AU - Dummer, Reinhard
AU - Mangana, Johanna
AU - Maul, Lara Valeska
AU - Meis, Frank
AU - Rappersberger, Klemens
AU - Persa, Oana Diana
AU - Biedermann, Tilo
AU - Posch, Christian
TI - Switching PD-1 to BRAF + MEK inhibition improves recurrence-free survival in patients receiving a second course of adjuvant melanoma therapy.
JO - Journal of the European Academy of Dermatology and Venereology
VL - nn
SN - 0926-9959
CY - Oxford [u.a.]
PB - Wiley-Blackwell
M1 - DKFZ-2025-00939
SP - nn
PY - 2025
N1 - epub
AB - PD-1 or BRAF + MEK inhibition is considered the current gold standard in adjuvant melanoma therapy. Little is known if, after the recurrence of the disease and surgery, a second course of adjuvant therapy might be beneficial.A multicenter, retrospective study investigating a second course of adjuvant therapy after recurrence and surgery in stage III-IV melanoma patients. Patients received nivolumab (NIV), pembrolizumab (PEM) or dabrafenib plus trametinib (D + T) between 01/2017 and 10/2021. The primary endpoint was 12-month recurrence-free survival (RFS2). Further analyses included descriptive and correlative statistics.Sixty-six patients from 22 centers in Germany, Austria and Switzerland were included. Thirty-two patients received D + T as second-course adjuvant therapy, 9 patients received PEM and 25 patients received NIV. Recurrence-free survival for the second-course adjuvant treatment (RFS2) was assessed after 12 and 24 months and showed a superiority of adjuvant BRAF + MEK over PD-1 therapy (12-months RFS2: 90.6
LB - PUB:(DE-HGF)16
C6 - pmid:40331873
DO - DOI:10.1111/jdv.20708
UR - https://inrepo02.dkfz.de/record/300825
ER -