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Dabrafenib is indicated as a single agent for the treatment of people with unresectable or metastatic melanoma with BRAF V600E mutation. [2] Dabrafenib is indicated, in combination with trametinib, for BRAF V600E-positive unresectable or metastatic melanoma, metastatic non-small cell lung cancer, metastatic anaplastic thyroid cancer, and unresectable or metastatic solid tumors.
Trametinib, sold under the brand name Mekinist among others, is an anticancer medication used for the treatment of melanoma [4] [5] and glioma. [ 6 ] [ 7 ] It is a MEK inhibitor drug with anti-cancer activity. [ 8 ]
Survival rates for most childhood cancers have improved, with a notable improvement in acute lymphoblastic leukemia (the most common childhood cancer). Due to improved treatment, the 5-year survival rate for acute lymphoblastic leukemia has increased from less than 10% in the 1960s to about 90% during the time period 2003-2009.
Dabrafenib and trametinib have been approved as tissue-agnostic drugs for solid tumors that are B-RAF positive. [ 16 ] Tissue-agnostic cancer drugs that are under development as of May 2022 [update] include Selitrectinib (Loxo-195) and anti- ERBB3 antibodies.
Survival rate is a part of survival analysis.It is the proportion of people in a study or treatment group still alive at a given period of time after diagnosis. It is a method of describing prognosis in certain disease conditions, and can be used for the assessment of standards of therapy.
Results from a phase 3 clinical trial show promise for a new standard of care for treating people with advanced cervical cancer. The new treatment includes a combination of induction chemotherapy ...
Progression-free survival (PFS) is "the length of time during and after the treatment of a disease, such as cancer, that a patient lives with the disease but it does not get worse". [1] In oncology , PFS usually refers to situations in which a tumor is present, as demonstrated by laboratory testing, radiologic testing, or clinically.
Human infectious diseases may be characterized by their case fatality rate (CFR), the proportion of people diagnosed with a disease who die from it (cf. mortality rate).It should not be confused with the infection fatality rate (IFR), the estimated proportion of people infected by a disease-causing agent, including asymptomatic and undiagnosed infections, who die from the disease.