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Does the distribution pattern of brain metastases during BRAF inhibitor therapy reflect phenotype switching?
Melanoma research - 1 Jun 2017
Haueis Silvia A, Kränzlin Pascale, Mangana Joanna, Cheng Phil F, Urosevic-Maiwald Mirjana, Braun Ralph P, Levesque Mitchell P, Dummer Reinhard, Goldinger Simone M
Abstract excerpt
Brain metastases (brain mets) are frequent in metastatic melanoma patients. The aim of this study was to investigate the morphology and progression pattern of brain mets in melanoma patients treated with BRAF inhibitors (BRAFi) compared with patients who did not receive targeted therapy (BRAFi group and control group). The number and size of brain mets were compared between a baseline and a comparative MRI at...
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