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Avelumab in patients with previously treated metastatic Merkel cell carcinoma: long-term data and biomarker analyses from the single-arm phase 2 JAVELIN Merkel 200 trial.
Journal for immunotherapy of cancer - 1 May 2020
D'Angelo Sandra P, Bhatia Shailender, Brohl Andrew S, Hamid Omid, Mehnert Janice M, Terheyden Patrick, Shih Kent C, Brownell Isaac, Lebbé Celeste, Lewis Karl D, Linette Gerald P, Milella Michele, Georges Sara, Shah Parantu, Ellers-Lenz Barbara, Bajars Marcis, Güzel Gülseren, Nghiem Paul T
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BACKGROUND: Merkel cell carcinoma (MCC) is a rare, aggressive skin cancer associated with a high risk of metastasis. In 2017, avelumab (anti-programmed death-ligand 1 (PD-L1)) became the first approved treatment for patients with metastatic MCC (mMCC), based on the occurrence of durable responses in a subset of patients. Here, we report long-term efficacy and safety data and exploratory biomarker analyses in...
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