Bristol-Myers Squibb Company said the ongoing phase III CheckMate-227 study met its co-primary endpoint of progression-free survival with the Opdivo (nivolumab) plus Yervoy (ipilimumab) combination versus chemotherapy in first-line advanced non-small cell lung cancer patients whose tumors have high (≥10 mutations/megabase, mut/mb) tumor mutation burden, regardless of PD-L1 expression.
Last summer, Anirban Maitra, a pathologist specializing in pancreatic cancer, joined the NYU Langone Health Laura and Isaac Perlmutter Cancer Center to co-lead its Gastrointestinal Cancer Center.
