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.
Anthony G. Letai, a physician-scientist at Harvard Medical School and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute whose research is focused on apoptosis and functional diagnostics, has been tapped by the Trump administration to become the 18th director of the National Cancer Institute.
