Pharmaceuticals, Biotechnology and Life Sciences
The European Commission (EC) has approved Opdivo (nivolumab) as a monotherapy for the adjuvant treatment of adults and adolescents 12 years of age and older with stage IIB or IIC melanoma who have undergone complete resection
The European Commission (EC) has approved Bristol Myers Squibb’s Opdivo (nivolumab) in combination with Yervoy (ipilimumab) for the first-line treatment of adult patients with unresectable advanced, recurrent or metastatic esophageal squamous cell carcinoma (ESCC) with tumor cell PD-L1 expression ≥ 1%.
The European Medicines Agency (EMA) has validated Bristol Myers Squibb-s type II variation application for Opdivo (nivolumab) in combination with chemotherapy for the neoadjuvant treatment of patients with resectable stage IB to IIIA non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), based on results from the CheckMate -816 trial.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration had approved the expanded use of Opdivo, BMS’s cancer drug for patients with an aggressive form of lung cancer.
Opdivo in combination with Cabometyx was generally well tolerated, with a low rate of treatment-related discontinuations.
UbiVac has announced working with BMS on Phase Ib study to combine UbiVac’s DRibble® Platform Vaccine, DPV-001 with anti-OX40 (BMS-986178) and Opdivo (nivolumab) to test hypothesis that this combination will augment anticancer immunity in advanced triple negative breast cancer.
PRINCETON, N.J.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–$BMY #BMS—Bristol-Myers Squibb Company (NYSE: BMY) today announced that the European Commission (EC) has approved Opdivo (nivolumab) flat…
Bristol-Myers Squibb study evaluated Opdivo plus low-dose Yervoy given concomitantly with two cycles of chemotherapy vs. chemotherapy alone for the…
Opdivo demonstrated a 23% reduction in the risk of death and 2.5-month improvement in median overall survival compared to chemotherapy, according to results from Phase 3 ATTRACTION-3 trial to be featured in a Presidential Symposium during the European Society for Medical Oncology 2019 Annual Congress.
Bristol-Myers squib’s Opdivo combined with Yervoy resulted in 52% of patients with being alive at five years, while 74% of patients treated with Opdivo plus Yervoy who were alive at five years remained treatment-free, the longest follow-up to date results for dual Immuno-Oncology (I-O) therapy in a Phase 3, randomized, controlled trial showed.