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.
How’s this for a paradox: The better cancer centers become at keeping patients alive, the more expensive cancer care becomes. This brutal tradeoff hits harder in rural areas, where the cancer burden is higher and the investigator and clinical trial representation is lower.
