DISEASE & TREATMENT SETTING
Mekinist: unresectable metastatic Melanoma with BRAF stated without a specific alteration, BRAF V600E
Source-derived catalogue. This is not a treatment recommendation or a personalised trial match.
Exact scope
1 INDICATIONS AND USAGE MEKINIST is a kinase inhibitor indicated as a single agent for the treatment of BRAF-inhibitor treatment-naïve patients with unresectable or metastatic melanoma with BRAF V600E or V600K mutations as detected by an FDA-approved test.
Broader topic: Melanoma
- Source population
- Not part of this definition
- Disease extent
- metastatic
- Treatment line
- Not part of this definition
- Stage
- Not part of this definition
- Resectability
- unresectable
Biomarkers, prior therapy and derivation
- molecular
- gene
- BRAF
- alteration
- stated without a specific alteration
- status
- present
- gene
- BRAF
- alteration
- V600E
- status
- present
- prior therapy
- derivation status
- source-attested
- derivation note
- Scoped from the FDA approved indication for Mekinist (product label). Only dimensions stated in that wording are part of this definition.
- source wording
- 1 INDICATIONS AND USAGE MEKINIST is a kinase inhibitor indicated as a single agent for the treatment of BRAF-inhibitor treatment-naïve patients with unresectable or metastatic melanoma with BRAF V600E or V600K mutations as detected by an FDA-approved test.
Study evidence for this setting
A Study of Vemurafenib (RO5185426) in Comparison With Dacarbazine in Previously Untreated Patients With Metastatic Melanoma (BRIM 3)
GSK1120212 vs Chemotherapy in Advanced or Metastatic BRAF V600E/K Mutation-positive Melanoma
A Study Comparing Trametinib and Dabrafenib Combination Therapy to Dabrafenib Monotherapy in Subjects With BRAF-mutant Melanoma
Dabrafenib Plus Trametinib vs Vemurafenib Alone in Unresectable or Metastatic BRAF V600E/K Cutaneous Melanoma
A Study of Vemurafenib Adjuvant Therapy in Participants With Surgically Resected Cutaneous BRAF-Mutant Melanoma
Dabrafenib With Trametinib in the Adjuvant Treatment of High-risk BRAF V600 Mutation-positive Melanoma (COMBI-AD).
Study Comparing Combination of LGX818 Plus MEK162 Versus Vemurafenib and LGX818 Monotherapy in BRAF Mutant Melanoma
Tovorafenib (DAY101) Monotherapy for Patients With Melanoma and Other Solid Tumors
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