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Which BRAF/MEK inhibitor combination have you found most tolerable and easiest to prescribe in good performance patients with mutated metastatic melanoma?

What would be your approach while deciding among the various combinations available?
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Medical Oncology · University Hospitals
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I prefer using encorafenib and binimetinib. Although the number of pills is many (almost 12 a day), the most common toxicity I have encountered is GI toxicity of nausea and vomiting followed by occasional diarrhea. One patient, in my entire experience of six years of treating melanoma, reported feve...

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Medical Oncology · The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center / James Cancer Hospital and Solove Research Institute
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I think it’s helpful to know the peculiar side effects of each targeted therapy drug and their clinical data for particular clinical situations. Dabrefenib/trametinib has CNS efficacy data. It’s my treatment of choice for patients with CNS metastases. Although pyrexia is a common side effect, it can...

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