I had to read the abstract to understand what they were doing, but this was targeted at patients who had not previously had ipi treatment, just nivo.
My wife is a stage 4 melanoma survivor (with brain mets). She was diagnosed stage 4 when they found two melanoma brain tumors in 2017 (she had had a melanoma removed from her leg 6 months prior and he been given an all clear at that time).
She was treated with ipi + nivo for 4 infusions and then switched to nivo alone for two years. The ipi frequently has serious side effects so they limit it to 4 or fewer treatments but just that amount has a huge benefit.
Immunotherapies have been a game changer for melanoma, as chemotherapy and most other treatments have never worked very well. If she had been diagnosed 5 years earlier she likely wouldn’t have survived it, now she’s cancer-free.
That is amazing news and a real praise to God.
So few can say they survived Stage 4 brain cancer.
Thank you for sharing. What a true blessing!