BRISTOL-MYERS SQUIBB was granted conditional approval by Health Canada for the treatment of previously untreated adults with unresectable or metastatic melanoma using Opdivo and Yervoy. The first-ever combination of two immuno-oncology agents has the potential to increase progression-free survival in certain patients. Health Canada also issued a Notice of Compliance with conditions for the OPDIVO...
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.
