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The benefits of immunotherapy combinations

By giving treatments in tandem, researchers hope to reach a wider range of patients.
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When a patient of Adil Daud started to take an experimental combination of immunotherapy drugs for melanoma in 2015, he had a grapefruit-sized growth bulging under his armpit. The tumour was inoperable, and Daud suspected that the cancer had spread to the 69-year-old man’s lungs.

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Nature 552, S67-S69 (2017)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-017-08702-7

This article is part of Nature Outlook: Cancer immunotherapy, an editorially independent supplement produced with the financial support of third parties. About this content.

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  • Correction 22 December 2017: An earlier version of this article overstated the number of immunotherapeutic agents in clinical development.

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