Archive: 31/05/2015
Immunotherapy combo increases progression-free survival in advanced melanoma patients
Treating advanced melanoma patients with either a combination of the immunotherapy drugs nivolumab (Opdivo) and ipilimumab (Yervoy) or nivolumab alone significantly increases progression-free survival (PFS) over using ipilimumab ...
May 31, 2015
Hong Kong quarantines 18 over MERS fears
Hong Kong authorities quarantined 18 fellow passengers of a South Korean man who arrived in the city infected with Middle East Respiratory Syndrome, or MERS.
May 31, 2015
Study identifies possible new combination chemotherapy for patients with advanced prostate cancer
For more than a decade, oncologists using cytotoxic chemotherapy to treat patients with advanced metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer (mCRPC) have relied on the sequential use of single agent taxanes such as docetaxel ...
May 31, 2015