Karen Kelly, MD, on PD-1 Axis Inhibition and the Treatment of Advanced Disease
2015 IASLC World Conference on Lung Cancer
Karen Kelly, MD, of the University of California, Davis, summarizes three important papers on NSCLC: expression as a predictive biomarker; pembrolizumab, immune-mediated adverse events, and corticosteroid use; and an evaluation of disease-related symptoms in patients treated with nivolumab or docetaxel (Abstracts ORAL 31.01, 31.02, and 31.03).
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