Medical Oncology

April Kelly Scott Salama, MD

Associate Professor of Medicine
Member of the Duke Cancer Institute
In Their Words

Education and Training

  • Hematology/Oncology, University of Chicago, 2007 - 2010
  • Internal Medicine, University of Chicago, 2004 - 2007
  • M.D., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2004

Grants

Publications

Ott, PA, Pavlick, AC, Johnson, DB, Hart, LL, Infante, JR, Luke, JJ, Lutzky, J, Rothschild, NE, Spitler, LE, Cowey, CL, Alizadeh, AR, Salama, AK, He, Y, Hawthorne, TR, Bagley, RG, Zhang, J, Turner, CD, and Hamid, O. "A phase 2 study of glembatumumab vedotin, an antibody-drug conjugate targeting glycoprotein NMB, in patients with advanced melanoma." Cancer (January 28, 2019).

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30690710
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Kwak, M, Farrow, NE, Salama, AKS, Mosca, PJ, Hanks, BA, Slingluff, CL, and Beasley, GM. "Updates in adjuvant systemic therapy for melanoma." Journal of Surgical Oncology 119, no. 2 (January 2019): 222-231. (Review)

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30481375
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Puza, CJ, Bressler, ES, Terando, AM, Howard, JH, Brown, MC, Hanks, B, Salama, AKS, and Beasley, GM. "The Emerging Role of Surgery for Patients With Advanced Melanoma Treated With Immunotherapy." The Journal of Surgical Research 236 (December 20, 2018): 209-215.

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30694757
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Tan, I, Malinzak, M, and Salama, AKS. "Delayed onset of neurosarcoidosis after concurrent ipilimumab/nivolumab therapy." Journal for Immunotherapy of Cancer 6, no. 1 (July 31, 2018): 77-null.

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30064495
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Sammons, S, McNamara, M, Salama, AKS, and Crawford, J. "Immune checkpoint inhibition." In Side Effects of Medical Cancer Therapy: Prevention and Treatment: Second Edition, 315-353. June 27, 2018.

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Barker, CA, and Salama, AK. "New NCCN Guidelines for Uveal Melanoma and Treatment of Recurrent or Progressive Distant Metastatic Melanoma." Journal of the National Comprehensive Cancer Network : Jnccn 16, no. 5S (May 2018): 646-650.

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29784747
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Maio, M, Lewis, K, Demidov, L, Mandalà, M, Bondarenko, I, Ascierto, PA, Herbert, C, Mackiewicz, A, Rutkowski, P, Guminski, A, Goodman, GR, Simmons, B, Ye, C, Yan, Y, Schadendorf, D, Cinat, G, Fein, LE, Brown, M, Haydon, A, Khattak, A, McNeil, C, Parente, P, Power, J, Roberts-Thomson, R, Sandhu, S, Underhill, C, Varma, S, Berger, T, Awada, A, Blockx, N, Buyse, V, Mebis, J, Franke, FA, Jobim de Azevedo, S, Silva Lazaretti, N, Jamal, R, Mihalcioiu, C, Petrella, T, Savage, K, Song, X, Wong, R, Dabelic, N, Plestina, S, Vojnovic, Z, Arenberger, P, Kocak, I, Krajsova, I, Kubala, E, Melichar, B, Vantuchova, Y, Putnik, K, Dreno, B, Dutriaux, C, Grob, JJ, Joly, P, Lacour, JP, Meyer, N, Mortier, L, Thomas, L, Fluck, M, Gambichler, T, Hassel, J, Hauschild, A, Donnellan, P, McCaffrey, J, Power, D, Ariad, S, Bar-Sela, G, Hendler, D, Ron, I, Schachter, J, Ascierto, P, Berruti, A, Bianchi, L, Chiarion Sileni, V, Cognetti, F, Danielli, R, Di Giacomo, AM, Gianni, L, Goldhirsch, A, Guida, M, Marchetti, P, Queirolo, P, Santoro, A, Kapiteijn, E, Ferreira, P, Gafton, G, Makarova, Y, Andric, Z, Babovic, N, Jovanovic, D, and Kandolf Sekulovic, L. "Adjuvant vemurafenib in resected, BRAFV600 mutation-positive melanoma (BRIM8): a randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled, multicentre, phase 3 trial." The Lancet Oncology 19, no. 4 (April 1, 2018): 510-520.

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Clarke, JM, George, DJ, Lisi, S, and Salama, AKS. "Immune Checkpoint Blockade: The New Frontier in Cancer Treatment." Targeted oncology 13, no. 1 (February 13, 2018): 1-20.

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Bhatti, MT, and Salama, AKS. "Neuro-ophthalmic side effects of molecularly targeted cancer drugs." Eye (London, England) 32, no. 2 (February 2018): 287-301. (Review)

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Hamid, O, Puzanov, I, Dummer, R, Schachter, J, Daud, A, Schadendorf, D, Blank, C, Cranmer, LD, Robert, C, Pavlick, AC, Gonzalez, R, Hodi, FS, Ascierto, PA, Salama, AKS, Margolin, KA, Gangadhar, TC, Wei, Z, Ebbinghaus, S, Ibrahim, N, and Ribas, A. "Final analysis of a randomised trial comparing pembrolizumab versus investigator-choice chemotherapy for ipilimumab-refractory advanced melanoma." European Journal of Cancer (Oxford, England : 1990) 86 (November 2017): 37-45.

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28961465
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