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Kamran Ahmed, MD, on Lung Cancer, Radiation, and Immune Checkpoint Inhibitors

2017 Multidisciplinary Thoracic Cancers Symposium

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Kamran Ahmed, MD, of the H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute, discusses results from a small study of pneumonitis in patients who received thoracic radiotherapy within 6 months of anti–PD-1 therapy, anti–PD-L1 therapy, anti–CTLA-4 therapy, or some combination of these drugs (Abstract 10).



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