Sunday, 3 June 2018
Sequencing therapies for Stage 4 Melanoma
Interesting session on how to use systemic therapies, radiotherapies and surgery in advanced Melanoma.
Take home message however- there is *a lot* of personal judgement in there, so our take-home message would be- make sure you have a multi-disciplinary Tumour board and otherwise, get opinions from different specialities.
In many cases, there is more than one possible approach and every single one comes with certain benefits and certain risks- and it's not at least up to the patient to decide what is acceptable and what not.
An interesting piece of information on LDH, CD8 T cell infiltration and PDL1 expression (all prognostic/ predictive markers):
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