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Immunotherapy cancer drug hailed as 'game changer'─── 11:45 Sun, 09 Oct 2016
London - An immunotherapy drug has been described as a potential "game-changer" in promising results presented at the European Cancer Congress.
BBC reports in a study of head and neck cancer, more patients taking nivolumab survived for longer compared with those who were treated with chemotherapy.
In another study, combining nivolumab with another drug shrank tumours in advanced kidney cancer patients.
In a trial of more than 350 patients, published in the New England Journal of Medicine, 36% treated with the immunotherapy drug nivolumab were alive after one year compared with 17% who received chemotherapy.
Immunotherapy works by harnessing the immune system to destroy cancer cells.
BBC
