Bristol-Myers immunotherapy shows promise to replace chemo for melanoma

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Bristol-Myers immunotherapy shows promise to replace chemo for melanoma

By Ransdell Pierson (Reuters) - Chemotherapy as a treatment for advanced melanoma could soon become obsolete, researchers said on Sunday, after patients taking an experimental immuno-oncology drug from Bristol-Myers Squibb Co had a much higher survival rate and had other favorable results. The impressive results, compared with chemo, were seen in a late-stage study of the Bristol-Myers drug Opdivo, which helps take the brakes off the immune system by blocking the protein PD-1. ...

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