The EC has approved the combination of Opdivo (nivolumab) 3 mg/kg plus Yervoy (ipilimumab) 1 mg/kg for the first-line treatment of patients with intermediate- and poor-risk advanced renal cell carcinoma. This decision represents the first approval of an immuno-oncology combination therapy for patients with this type of cancer in the E.U.
Leadership is changing at The Wistar Institute and the Helen F. Graham Cancer Center & Research Institute in the months to come—but the leaders of the two institutions say that this will have little if any effect on the clinical-research collaboration that they have spent the past 15years building (The Cancer Letter, July 12, 2019).
