4 results match your criteria: "Melanoma Institute Australia and University of Sydney[Affiliation]"
Clinical impact of COVID-19 on patients with cancer treated with immune checkpoint inhibition.
J Immunother Cancer
January 2021
Melanoma Institute Australia and University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Background: Patients with cancer who are infected with severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) are more likely to develop severe illness and die compared with those without cancer. The impact of immune checkpoint inhibition (ICI) on the severity of COVID-19 illness is unknown. The aim of this study was to investigate whether ICI confers an additional risk for severe COVID-19 in patients with cancer.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Obesity has been linked to increased mortality in several cancer types; however, the relation between obesity and survival outcomes in metastatic melanoma is unknown. The aim of this study was to examine the association between body-mass index (BMI) and progression-free survival or overall survival in patients with metastatic melanoma who received targeted therapy, immunotherapy, or chemotherapy.
Methods: This retrospective study analysed independent cohorts of patients with metastatic melanoma assigned to treatment with targeted therapy, immunotherapy, or chemotherapy in randomised clinical trials and one retrospective study of patients treated with immunotherapy.
Safety Profile of Nivolumab Monotherapy: A Pooled Analysis of Patients With Advanced Melanoma.
J Clin Oncol
March 2017
Jeffrey S. Weber, H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center, Tampa, FL; F. Stephen Hodi, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA; Jedd D. Wolchok, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY; Suzanne L. Topalian, Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins, Baltimore, MD; Mario Sznol, Yale University School of Medicine and Smilow Cancer Center, Yale-New Haven Hospital, New Haven, CT; Hewei Li, Ian M. Waxman, and Joel Jiang, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Princeton, NJ; Dirk Schadendorf, University of Essen, Essen, Germany; James Larkin, Royal Marsden National Health Service Foundation Trust, London, United Kingdom; Georgina V. Long, Melanoma Institute Australia and University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia; and Caroline Robert, Gustave Roussy and Paris-Sud University, Villejuif-Paris Sud, France.
Purpose We conducted a retrospective analysis to assess the safety profile of nivolumab monotherapy in patients with advanced melanoma and describe the management of adverse events (AEs) using established safety guidelines. Patients and Methods Safety data were pooled from four studies, including two phase III trials, with patients who received nivolumab 3 mg/kg once every 2 weeks. We evaluated rate of treatment-related AEs, time to onset and resolution of select AEs (those with potential immunologic etiology), and impact of select AEs and suppressive immune-modulating agents (IMs) on antitumor efficacy.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFDose selection, pharmacokinetics, and pharmacodynamics of BRAF inhibitor dabrafenib (GSK2118436).
Clin Cancer Res
September 2014
Melanoma Institute Australia and University of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. Westmead Institute for Cancer Research, Westmead Millennium Institute, and Department of Medical Oncology, Westmead Hospital, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
Purpose: Dabrafenib is a selective, potent ATP-competitive inhibitor of the BRAFV600-mutant kinase that has demonstrated efficacy in clinical trials. We report the rationale for dose selection in the first-in-human study of dabrafenib, including pharmacokinetics, tissue pharmacodynamics, 2[18F]fluoro-2-deoxy-D-glucose-positron emission tomography (FDG-PET) pharmacodynamics, and dose-response relationship.
Experimental Design: Dabrafenib was administered orally once, twice (BID), or three times daily (TID).