Thursday, June 19, 2014

Study Compares Survival for Treatments of Advanced Uveal Melanoma

In patients with advanced uveal melanoma, treatment with the agent selumetinib, compared with chemotherapy, resulted in an improved cancer progression-free survival time and tumor response rate, but no improvement in overall survival. This is according to a study in the June 18 issue of iJAMA/i. The modest improvement in clinical outcomes was accompanied by a high rate of adverse events. Uveal melanoma arises from melanocytes within the choroid ...

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