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All Oncology News

William G. Wierda, MD, PhD

December 5, 2020 - Patients with previously untreated chronic lymphocytic leukemia /small lymphocytic lymphoma who received a placebo following a fixed-treatment duration of ibrutinib combined with venetoclax achieved similar 1-year disease-free survival results compared with patients who remained on ibrutinib following confirmed undetectable minimal residual disease.

Jeffrey S. Weber, MD, PhD, of NYU Langone Health’s Perlmutter Cancer Center

December 4, 2020 — Adjuvant nivolumab demonstrated clinically meaningful improvements in relapse-free survival, overall survival, and distant metastasis-free survival vs placebo in patients with high-risk resected melanoma, even after accounting for disease stage and post-recurrence survival, supporting the use of the anti–PD-1 antibody as a standard adjuvant therapy.