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Combination immunotherapy treatment effective before lung cancer surgery, phase II study shows

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Combination immunotherapy with the anti-PD-L1 monoclonal antibody durvalumab and other novel agents outperforms durvalumab alone in the neoadjuvant setting for early-stage non-small-cell lung cancer, according to researchers at MD Anderson Cancer Center.

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