Clinical efficacy of a RAF inhibitor needs broad target blockade in BRAF-mutant melanoma.

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Published in Nature on September 30, 2010

Authors

Gideon Bollag1, Peter Hirth, James Tsai, Jiazhong Zhang, Prabha N Ibrahim, Hanna Cho, Wayne Spevak, Chao Zhang, Ying Zhang, Gaston Habets, Elizabeth A Burton, Bernice Wong, Garson Tsang, Brian L West, Ben Powell, Rafe Shellooe, Adhirai Marimuthu, Hoa Nguyen, Kam Y J Zhang, Dean R Artis, Joseph Schlessinger, Fei Su, Brian Higgins, Raman Iyer, Kurt D'Andrea, Astrid Koehler, Michael Stumm, Paul S Lin, Richard J Lee, Joseph Grippo, Igor Puzanov, Kevin B Kim, Antoni Ribas, Grant A McArthur, Jeffrey A Sosman, Paul B Chapman, Keith T Flaherty, Xiaowei Xu, Katherine L Nathanson, Keith Nolop

Author Affiliations

1: Plexxikon Inc., 91 Bolivar Drive, Berkeley, California 94710, USA. gbollag@plexxikon.com

Associated clinical trials:

Study of the Combination Vemurafenib Plus PEG-interferon in Advanced Melanoma Patients Harboring the V600BRAF Mutation (VEMUPLINT) | NCT01959633

Clinical Trial to Evaluate the Efficacy of Vemurafenib in Combination With Cobimetinib (Continuous and Intermittent) in BRAFV600-mutation Positive Patients With Unresectable Locally Advanced or Metastatic Melanoma | NCT02583516

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