A review.In The Lancet Oncol., Patrick Y Wen and colleagues present interim results from the Rare Oncol. Agnostic Research (ROAR) study, an ongoing phase 2, open-label, single-arm, multicenter basket trial of targeted therapies in BRAF-mutant cancers, showing pos. results for dabrafenib plus trametinib in patients with high-grade glioma and low-grade glioma.In this study, Wen and colleagues used a combinatorial approach to target the MAPK pathway in adult gliomas with BRAF V600E mutations.Patients were given dabrafenib (an oral BRAF inhibitor) and trametinib (an oral MEK inhibitor), and the primary endpoint was the objective response rate by Response Assessment in Neuro-Oncol. criteria.Median overall survival in the high-grade glioma patients was 17. 6 mo (95% CI 9·5-45·2), with a median overall survival of 13. 7 mo (8·4-25·6) when one considers only the 31 patients with glioblastoma.Monotherapy studies involving inhibition of the MAPK pathway, similarly designed as basket studies, have shown activity in patients with BRAF mutations.Results from the glioma cohort of the ROAR trial support the updated WHO recommendations for the classification of CNS tumors.The study by Wen and colleagues represents a paradigm shift in thoughtfully integrating targeted therapies into care of patients with glioma.Evidence and experience on combination MEK plus ERK inhibition for adults and pediatric patients with BRAF-mutant gliomas and other rather brain tumors is much needed.