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How do you reconcile the differing results of the C-POST and KEYNOTE-630 trials when discussing treatment options with high-risk CSCC patients?

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Do discordant outcomes with C-POST and KN-630 impact your treatment decisions in high risk CSCC?

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Dermatology · George Washington University
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I explain that the two trials enrolled different risk populations, which likely accounts for the apparent discrepancy in outcomes — but when you look closely, they actually lead to the same clinical conclusion. C-POST deliberately enriched for very-high-risk patients (using well-established adverse ...

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Dermatology · University of Pennsylvania
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Identifying patients at the highest risk for cSCC disease relapse is crucial and likely accounts for the difference in outcomes between the C-POST (adjuvant cemiplimab is highly effective to prevent relapse) and KEYNOTE-630 (adjuvant pembrolizumab is not effective) trials. The outcomes from the KEYN...

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Medical Oncology · The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center / James Cancer Hospital and Solove Research Institute
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It is hard to compare across these two randomized, placebo-controlled phase 3 trials, particularly when there are differences in how they define high-risk cSCC, and the different patient characteristics in these two trials. The C-POST trial showed a very compelling efficacy for its primary endpoint ...

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