Since then, the companies have been scrambling to rack up indications for the rival drugs, which are both approved for treating melanoma and lung cancer. (fortune.com)
Significant advances have been made into treating melanoma but unfortunately not all patients respond to the treatments available. (onjcancercentre.org)
Fifteen years after Science published a paper showing that antibodies blocking an inhibitory receptor on the T cell surface unleash these T cells to kill tumors in mice, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved such an antibody for use in treating melanoma. (science.sciencemag.org)