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Paolo A. Ascierto, MD, on Melanoma: Sequencing Targeted Treatments and Immunotherapy

ESMO Virtual Congress 2020

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Paolo A. Ascierto, MD, of the Istituto Nazionale Tumori, discusses phase II results on progression-free survival for patients with advanced melanoma in the SECOMBIT study, whose aim is to evaluate the different sequencing of a BRAF inhibitor (encorafenib) plus a MEK inhibitor (binimetinib) with ipilimumab plus nivolumab (Abstract LBA45).



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