Discover the groundbreaking impact of adjuvant PD-1 inhibitors on the survival rates of patients battling advanced acral melanoma post-surgery.
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The Effectiveness of Adjuvant PD-1 Inhibitors in Patients With Surgically Resected Stage III/IV Acral Melanoma.
Arak et al., J Immunother 2024
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https://doi.org/10.1097/CJI.0000000000000508
Listen up, folks, we’ve done something really important here. We’ve looked at the best way to stop melanoma, a very bad skin cancer, from coming back after surgery. We’re talking about the big league, stage III or IV acral melanoma. Big stuff.
We had 114 patients, and we checked them out for, like, 40 months. A lot of them, sadly, saw the cancer come back. But here’s the deal: we gave some of them this incredible treatment after surgery, the PD-1 inhibitors, and others got different stuff like interferon and some other drugs.
Now, the patients who got the treatment, they did better, much better. Their disease stayed away longer, and they lived longer too. That’s a huge win. But when we looked really closely, and I mean really closely, there wasn’t a big difference between the PD-1 stuff and the other treatments. They all did a fantastic job.
So, what we’re saying is, adjuvant therapy, that’s the treatment after surgery, it’s a total game-changer for these patients. It’s about survival, and we want them to win, don’t we? And we’re giving them the best shot at it, with or without the PD-1. That’s what we do, we find the winners. And in this study, adjuvant therapy, it’s a winner. Believe me.