Supporting oncology professionals through education

The content on this site is intended for healthcare professionals only

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

ESMO 2019

27 Sep - 1 Oct 2019

Published: 28 Sep 2019

Views: 972

Rating:

Save

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.

Related Videos

EAU 2024: Bladder cancer latest

Dr Bernadett Szabados, Dr Félix Guerrero-Ramos, Dr Yohann Loriot, Prof Andrea...

EAU 2024: Bladder cancer latest ( Dr Bernadett Szabados, Dr Félix Guerrero-Ramos, Dr Yohann Loriot, Prof Andrea Necchi and Dr Cosimo De Nunzio )

ELCC 2024: Latest in EGFR mutant lung cancer; exon 20 mutation focus

Dr Anna Minchom, Prof Enriqueta Felip, Prof Nicolas Girard and Prof Pascale...

ELCC 2024: Latest in EGFR mutant lung cancer; exon 20 mutation focus ( Dr Anna Minchom, Prof Enriqueta Felip, Prof Nicolas Girard and Prof Pascale Tomasini )

Updates on lung cancer from WCLC and ESMO 2023

Dr Luis Raez - Memorial Cancer Institute, Miami, USA

Updates on lung cancer from WCLC and ESMO 2023 ( Dr Luis Raez - Memorial Cancer Institute, Miami, USA )

OncoAlert round up July 28th to August 3rd, 2023

Dr Gil Morgan - Executive Director, OncoAlert

OncoAlert round up July 28th to August 3rd, 2023 ( Dr Gil Morgan - Executive Director, OncoAlert )

Adding new vaccine type to leading immunotherapy dramatically reduces melanoma...

Dr Jeffrey Weber - NYU Langone’s Perlmutter Cancer Center, Newyork, USA

Adding new vaccine type to leading immunotherapy dramatically reduces melanoma recurrence ( Dr Jeffrey Weber - NYU Langone’s Perlmutter Cancer Center, Newyork, USA )

Pegargiminase-pemetrexed-platinum triplet therapy prolongs survival in non...

Prof Peter Szlosarek - Barts Cancer Institute, London, UK

Pegargiminase-pemetrexed-platinum triplet therapy prolongs survival in non-epithelioid pleural mesothelioma ( Prof Peter Szlosarek - Barts Cancer Institute, London, UK )

Four chemo cycles given with durvalumab and tremelimumab optimise response and...

Dr Niels Reinmuth - University of Muenster, Gauting, Germany

Four chemo cycles given with durvalumab and tremelimumab optimise response and tumour shrinkage in patients with mNSCLC ( Dr Niels Reinmuth - University of Muenster, Gauting, Germany )

Final data from phase II study of eftilagimod alpha and pembro in PD-1/PD-L1...

Dr Margarita Majem Tarruella - Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau, Barcelona...

Final data from phase II study of eftilagimod alpha and pembro in PD-1/PD-L1 inhibitors resistant second line metastatic NSCLC ( Dr Margarita Majem Tarruella - Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau, Barcelona, Spain )

ASCO Direct Highlights 2022: lung cancer highlights

Dr Tom Stinchcombe - Duke Cancer Center, Durham, USA

ASCO Direct Highlights 2022: lung cancer highlights ( Dr Tom Stinchcombe - Duke Cancer Center, Durham, USA )

More from ecancer