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Effects of Vemurafenib ± Cobimetinib on Intratumoral and Host Immunity in Patients With BRAFV600 Mutant Melanoma: Implications for Combination With Immunotherapy.
Cancer medicine - 1 Jan 2026
Rapisuwon Suthee, Slingluff Craig L, Wargo Jennifer A, Sullivan Ryan J, Izar Benjamin, Lin Jia-Ren, Mauldin Ileana S, Olson Walter C, Tran Christine A, Schwartzman Gabrielle H, Gibney Geoffrey T, Al-Refaie Waddah, Atkins Michael B
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BACKGROUND: Prior studies in patients with BRAF-mutant melanoma have shown increased density of tumor infiltrating lymphocytes (TIL) after 2 weeks of BRAF (BRAFi) ± MEK inhibition (MEKi), but did not characterize the functional state or clonal diversity of TIL over time. We evaluated sequential tumor biopsies during therapy to test the hypotheses that BRAF/MEKi would increase TIL to day 29, with increases in IFNγ...
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