A new partnership between the American Cancer Society and the Melanoma Research Alliance will fund research aimed at decreasing side effects associated with checkpoint inhibitors in hopes of increasing further cancer immunotherapy benefits. FDA has approved use of checkpoint drugs to combat seven cancer types including lung, head and neck, kidney cancer, bladder cancer, Merkel...
A group of melanoma experts, joined by three advocacy groups focused on melanoma, has engaged FDA in a public discussion of the challenges of developing new drugs in the refractory setting and the role crossover can play in such trials.
