Came across melanoma research, figured I’d share knowing we are all at higher risk.
“Giving the combination of immune checkpoint inhibitorsrelatlimab and nivolumab to patients with stage III melanoma before surgery was safe and completely cleared all viable tumor in 57% of patients in a Phase II study, researchers from The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center reported in Nature today.”
mdanderson.org/newsroom/neo...
Nature link from article:
It will be interesting to see how this pans out with CLL, because, so far the promise of checkpoint inhibitors seen in other cancers hasn't been observed when using them to treat CLL.
Neil
Does this mean that unresectable advanced melanoma is curable? Or that stage 4 metastatic melanoma is curable?
Time-to-first-treatment if you are Binet Stage A? Try the new International Prognostic Score (IPS-A from ICML 2019)
A Phase II Study of Curcumin and Vitamin D in Previously Untreated Patients with Early Stage Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia (CLL) or Small Lym
Richter’s treatment started 
Research survey on CLL/SLL
Thinking about cancer - or not
