General Internal Medicine

Melanoma/Skin Cancer

Questions discussed in this category

Would you switch azathioprine to a different immunosuppressant if a controlled patient with SLE develops melanoma and/or non-melanoma skin cancer?

2 Answers available

Do you stop PPI when starting patients on immunotherapy?

1 Answer available

What immunosuppressive agents would be available to patients with a history of melanoma?

Would you use immunosuppression in patients several years after curative treatment for melanoma?

1 Answer available

Would you avoid the use of a TNF inhibitors in patients with a remote history of melanoma, including those with ocular melanoma?

1 Answer available

What are your recommendation for vaccines in patients while on immunotherapy?

Do you recommend or withhold influenza and pneumonia vaccines while on treatment with checkpoint inhibitors?

1 Answer available

How do you manage an open wound that is not healing after radiation treatment for an ulcerated SCC of the scalp?

If the patient is a poor surgical candidate and is a symptomatic, can he or she live with this?

1 Answer available

How do you manage dabrafenib fever?

Decrease the dose? Treatment break? Steroids?

1 Answer available

Papers discussed in this category

Ann Pharmacother, 2021 Jul 20

Impact of Proton Pump Inhibitor Use on the Effectiveness of Immune Checkpoint Inhibitors in Advanced Cancer Patients.

Ann Transl Med,

The effect of proton pump inhibitor uses on outcomes for cancer patients treated with immune checkpoint inhibitors: a meta-analysis.

Can Fam Physician,

Deprescribing proton pump inhibitors: Evidence-based clinical practice guideline.

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