by Wayne Kuznar
CHICAGO — Clinical activity and survival outcomes improved with the addition of ipilimumab (Yervoy) to nivolumab (Opdivo) in patients with ovarian or other gynecologic clear cell carcinomas, according to results from the non-comparative phase II BrUOG 354 … Read more
Clearity’s Perspective: Previous research in different types of cancer has suggested that there is a relationship between a cancer patient’s gut microbiota (microorganisms that live in the digestive tract) composition and the response to immune checkpoint inhibitor therapy; however,
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Results from the S1609 DART clinical trial, which tested an immunotherapy combination of ipilimumab plus nivolumab in 53 cohorts of patients with rare cancers, are being reported for five cohorts of patients who had rare … Read more
An analysis of the NRG Oncology clinical trial NRG-GY003 suggests that adding ipilimumab, a monoclonal antibody that targets the protein receptor CTLA-4, to a regimen with the checkpoint inhibitor nivolumab could improve the proportion with tumor response and progression-free survival … Read more
