CHICAGO — Adjuvant dabrafenib plus trametinib reduced mortality risk for adults with resected stage III BRAF V600-mutant melanoma, according to final results of the randomized phase 3 COMBI-AD trial. The findings, presented at ASCO Annual Meeting, also reaffirmed 3- and 5-year updates on improved RFS and distant metastasis-free survival for individuals in the study’s treatment arm.
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Research led by Weill Cornell Medicine provides new evidence that most colorectal cancers begin with the loss of intestinal stem cells, even before cancer-causing genetic alterations appear. The results, published on May 29 in Developmental Cell, overturn the prevailing theory for colorectal tumor initiation and suggest new ways to diagnose the disease before it has a chance to become established.