A multicenter phase II clinical study conducted by the SWOG Cancer Research Network suggests that combination ipilimumab and nivolumab can be an effective second-line therapy for patients with an aggressive and deadly type of melanoma that is resistant to PD-1 inhibitors.
In a recent multi-institutional clinical trial, 71% of patients who received the immunotherapy drug pembrolizumab, an anti-PD-1 immune checkpoint inhibitor, before surgery had no detectable cancer remaining at the time of surgery.
