June 24, 2021
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VIDEO: CheckMate 816 shows efficacy, safety of neoadjuvant immunotherapy prior to surgery
Nathan A. Pennell, MD, PhD, spoke with Healio about phase 3 findings from the CheckMate 816 trial presented at the virtual ASCO Annual Meeting.
“There is a perception among surgeons that giving people immunotherapy before surgery may make surgical resection more complicated, patients may have adverse events that lead to not being able to get surgery and so there’s a lot of concern about this,” Pennell, medical oncologist at the Cleveland Clinic and associate professor medical oncology at the Cleveland Clinic Lerner College, said.
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Healio Interview; Spicer J, et al. Abstract 8503. Presented at: ASCO Annual Meeting (virtual meeting); June 4-8, 2021.
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Disclosure: Pennell reports serving in a consulting or advisory role for Bristol Myer Squibb, Genentech and Janssen.