• Reinhard Dummer, Axel Hauschild, Mario Santinami, Victoria Atkinson, Mario Mandalà, John M Kirkwood, Chiarion Sileni Vanna V From University Hospital Zurich Skin Cancer Center, Zurich, Switzerland (R.D.); University Hospital Schleswig-Holstein, Kiel (A. Hauschild), Unive, James Larkin, Marta Nyakas, Caroline Dutriaux, Andrew Haydon, Caroline Robert, Laurent Mortier, Jacob Schachter, Thierry Lesimple, Ruth Plummer, Kohinoor Dasgupta, Eduard Gasal, Monique Tan, Georgina V Long, and Dirk Schadendorf.
• From University Hospital Zurich Skin Cancer Center, Zurich, Switzerland (R.D.); University Hospital Schleswig-Holstein, Kiel (A. Hauschild), University Hospital Essen, Essen (D.S.), and German Cancer Consortium, Heidelberg (D.S.) - all in Germany; Fondazione IRCCS Istituto Nazionale dei Tumori, Milan (M.S.), Papa Giovanni XXIII Cancer Center Hospital, Bergamo (M.M.), and the Melanoma Oncology Unit, Veneto Oncology Institute-IRCCS, Padua (V.C.S.) - all in Italy; Princess Alexandra Hospital, Gallipoli Medical Research Foundation, University of Queensland, Brisbane (V.A.), Alfred Hospital, Melbourne, VIC (A. Haydon), and Melanoma Institute Australia, University of Sydney, and Royal North Shore and Mater Hospitals, Sydney (G.V.L.) - all in Australia; the Melanoma Program, UPMC Hillman Cancer Center, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh (J.M.K.); Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust, London (J.L.), and the Northern Centre for Cancer Care, Freeman Hospital and Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne (R.P.) - both in the United Kingdom; Oslo University Hospital, the Norwegian Radium Hospital, Oslo (M.N.); Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Bordeaux, Hôpital Saint-André, Bordeaux (C.D.), Gustave Roussy and Paris-Sud-Paris-Saclay University, Villejuif (C.R.), Université de Lille, INSERM Unité 1189, Lille (L.M.), and the Medical Oncology Department, Centre Eugène Marquis, Rennes (T.L.) - all in France; Ella Lemelbaum Institute for Immuno-Oncology and Melanoma, Sheba Medical Center, Tel Hashomer, and Sackler School of Medicine, Tel-Aviv University, Tel-Aviv - both in Israel (J.S.); Novartis Healthcare, Hyderabad, India (K.D.); and Novartis Pharmaceuticals, East Hanover, NJ (E.G., M.T.).
• N. Engl. J. Med. 2020 Sep 17; 383 (12): 1139-1148.

BackgroundIn the previously reported primary analysis of this phase 3 trial, 12 months of adjuvant dabrafenib plus trametinib resulted in significantly longer relapse-free survival than placebo in patients with resected stage III melanoma with BRAF V600E or V600K mutations. To confirm the stability of the relapse-free survival benefit, longer-term data were needed.MethodsWe randomly assigned 870 patients who had resected stage III melanoma with BRAF V600E or V600K mutations to receive 12 months of oral dabrafenib (at a dose of 150 mg twice daily) plus trametinib (2 mg once daily) or two matched placebos. The primary end point was relapse-free survival. Here, we report 5-year results for relapse-free survival and survival without distant metastasis as the site of the first relapse. Overall survival was not analyzed, since the required number of events to trigger the final overall survival analysis had not been reached.ResultsThe minimum duration of follow-up was 59 months (median patient follow-up, 60 months for dabrafenib plus trametinib and 58 months for placebo). At 5 years, the percentage of patients who were alive without relapse was 52% (95% confidence interval [CI], 48 to 58) with dabrafenib plus trametinib and 36% (95% CI, 32 to 41) with placebo (hazard ratio for relapse or death, 0.51; 95% CI, 0.42 to 0.61). The percentage of patients who were alive without distant metastasis was 65% (95% CI, 61 to 71) with dabrafenib plus trametinib and 54% (95% CI, 49 to 60) with placebo (hazard ratio for distant metastasis or death, 0.55; 95% CI, 0.44 to 0.70). No clinically meaningful between-group difference in the incidence or severity of serious adverse events was reported during the follow-up period.ConclusionsIn the 5-year follow-up of a phase 3 trial involving patients who had resected stage III melanoma with BRAF V600E or V600K mutations, 12 months of adjuvant therapy with dabrafenib plus trametinib resulted in a longer duration of survival without relapse or distant metastasis than placebo with no apparent long-term toxic effects. (Funded by GlaxoSmithKline and Novartis; COMBI-AD ClinicalTrials.gov number, NCT01682083; EudraCT number, 2012-001266-15.).Copyright © 2020 Massachusetts Medical Society.

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