Tuesday, 29 March 2022

Nivolumab Combination Therapy Improves Overall Survival in Patients with Advanced ESCC

 


Japan: A recent study (Doki et al., 2022) published in the New England Journal of Medicine revealed that treatment with nivolumab plus chemotherapy or nivolumab plus ipilimumab results in significantly longer overall survival than chemotherapy alone for patients with previously untreated advanced esophageal squamous cell carcinoma (ESCC).

The researchers conducted a phase 3 trial involving 970 patients with previously untreated, unresectable advanced, recurring, or metastatic ESCC, randomized to receive either nivolumab plus chemotherapy (321 patients), nivolumab plus the monoclonal antibody ipilimumab (325 patients), or chemotherapy alone (324 patients).

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