Overall Survival with Combined Nivolumab and Ipilimumab in Advanced Melanoma

2017 New England Journal of Medicine 5,260 citations

Abstract

Among patients with advanced melanoma, significantly longer overall survival occurred with combination therapy with nivolumab plus ipilimumab or with nivolumab alone than with ipilimumab alone. (Funded by Bristol-Myers Squibb and others; CheckMate 067 ClinicalTrials.gov number, NCT01844505 .).

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IpilimumabNivolumabMedicineMelanomaOncologyInternal medicineOverall survivalMetastatic melanomaClinical trialImmunotherapyCancerCancer research

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Year
2017
Type
article
Volume
377
Issue
14
Pages
1345-1356
Citations
5260
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Jedd D. Wolchok, Vanna Chiarion‐Sileni, René González et al. (2017). Overall Survival with Combined Nivolumab and Ipilimumab in Advanced Melanoma. New England Journal of Medicine , 377 (14) , 1345-1356. https://doi.org/10.1056/nejmoa1709684

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10.1056/nejmoa1709684