Expert review of anticancer therapy
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Expert Rev Anticancer Ther · Apr 2017
ReviewRadiosurgery/stereotactic radiotherapy in combination with immunotherapy and targeted agents for melanoma brain metastases.
The clinical landscape of advanced melanoma drastically changed after the introduction of both targeted therapies and immunotherapy. This rapid development in systemic therapies led to a change in the management of patients with brain metastases, with the subsequent need to re-assess the role of local therapies, in particular stereotactic radiosurgery (SRS). ⋯ A combination of targeted therapy and immunotherapy, in different sequences, has been shown to be feasible and well tolerable, on the basis of retrospective reports. Additional data from ongoing prospective trials are however needed to confirm or not these findings and better explore the efficacy of the combination.