In contrast to metastatic melanoma, BRAF inhibition alone or in combination with mitogen-activated protein kinase kinase (MEK) inhibitors has shown little utility in the treatment of BRAF V600E-mutant mCRC.
Despite the remarkable clinical activities achieved by vemurafenib and dabrafenib in treating BRAF(V600E) metastatic melanoma, their clinical efficacy in BRAF(V600E) colorectal cancer is far less impressive.
Prospective evaluation of two screening methods for molecular testing of metastatic melanoma: Diagnostic performance of BRAF V600E immunohistochemistry and of a NRAS-BRAF fully automated real-time PCR-based assay.