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Patients with melanoma of unknown primary (MUP) benefit from novel therapies similarly as those with stage-matched melanoma of known cutaneous primary (cMKP) despite having less favourable baseline prognostic factors, reveals a study.

The performance of a prognostic model with sentinel lymph node (SLN) biopsy status in assessing patient risk for 5-year melanoma-specific death is superior to that of a model with primary tumour staging factors alone for threshold mortality rates ≥30 percent, a study has shown.

The modified-release formulation of novel oral phosphodiesterase-4 (PDE4) inhibitor orismilast shows therapeutic potential in adults with moderate-to-severe psoriasis, with high rates of clinical response as compared with placebo, according to data from the phase IIb IASOS trial presented at AAD 2023.

Patients with severe alopecia areata (patchy baldness) had a dramatic hair regrowth, without serious adverse events, when treated with an investigational Janus kinase (JAK) inhibitor in the phase III THRIVE-AA2 study presented at AAD 2023.

Treatment with the oral highly selective JAK1 inhibitor ivarmacitinib appears to help reduce disease activity in patients with moderate-to-severe atopic dermatitis (AD), with up to 42 percent of them having complete or near-complete clearance of involved skin areas, according to the results of the pivotal phase III QUARTZ3 trial presented at AAD 2023.

Anticoagulation therapy with apixaban yields lower rates of ischaemic stroke and intracranial and extracranial major bleeding compared with other oral anticoagulants (OACs) in patients with atrial fibrillation (AF), with the magnitude of benefit for major bleeding even greater for those who have dementia, according to a study.

Treatment with secukinumab leads to sustained clinical response among patients with psoriasis, with clinical response being associated with rapid and persistent normalization of keratin 16 (K16) and inflammatory gene expression for most patients, according to data from the ObePso-S study.