The neoadjuvant Opdivo (nivolumab) plus chemotherapy showed a statistically significant and clinically meaningful improvement in event-free survival compared to chemotherapy alone in patients with with resectable stage IB to IIIA non-small cell lung cancer, according to a prespecified interim analysis of the phase III CheckMate -816 trial.
Last week’s issue of The Cancer Letter included an obituary that the entire staff at The Cancer Letter had been dreading for years: Abdallah Abou Zahr, an oncologist at Roger Maris Cancer Center in Fargo, ND, died Jan. 23 of a liposarcoma after a five-year battle with the disease.
