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Nivolumab plus ipilimumab combination offers chemotherapy-free option for advanced NSCLC

ESMO 2019

27 Sep - 1 Oct 2019

Published: 28 Sep 2019

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Prof Solange Peters - Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois, Lausanne, Switzerland

Prof Solange Peters presents data during a press conference at the 2019 ESMO congress from the CheckMate-227 trial.

This was a trial looking at the two immunotherapy drug combination of nivolumab plus ipilimumab as treatment for a subset of patients with advanced non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) compared to chemotherapy.

Watch Dr Marina Garassino's comment here.

Watch Dr Marina Garassino's interview with ecancer here.

Read more about the study here.

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