The European Medicine Agency’s Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use recommended the approval of Opdivo plus platinum-based chemotherapy for the neoadjuvant treatment of resectable non-small cell lung cancer at a high risk of recurrence in adult patients with tumor cell PD-L1 expression ≥1%.
Researchers from the University of Chicago Medicine Comprehensive Cancer Center demonstrated the potential of a novel treatment approach including immunotherapy to treat advanced human papillomavirus-negative head-and-neck squamous cell carcinoma. More than half of study participants had 50% or more of their tumors shrink after receiving the immunotherapy drug nivolumab with chemotherapy, followed by response-adaptive chemo-radiation therapy.
