Inoperable bulky melanoma responds to neoadjuvant therapy with vemurafenib.

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Published in BMJ Case Rep on October 22, 2012

Authors

Niloofar Fadaki1, Servando Cardona-Huerta, Lea Martineau, Suresh Thummala, Shih-Tsung Cheng, Steve R Bunker, Richard Garcia-Kennedy, Wei Wang, David Minor, Mohammed Kashani-Sabet, Stanley P L Leong

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Surgery, The Center for Melanoma Research and Treatment in California Pacific Medical Center, San Francisco, California, USA.

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