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Neoadjuvant Dual ICI Leads to Clinical Benefit in Operable NSCLC – MedPage Today

More than one-third of patients achieved major pathologic response with nivolumab-ipilimumab.

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Neoadjuvant combination immunotherapy with nivolumab (Opdivo) plus ipilimumab (Yervoy) produced a significant clinical benefit for patients with operable stage I-III non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), researchers reported.
The phase II NEOSTAR study randomly assigned 44 patients with operable NSCLC to neoadjuvant nivolumab with or without ipilimumab followed by surgery. Among those, 38% of patients that received the combination achieved major pathological response (MPR) — defined as 10% or less…

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