Skin cancer: Pair of drugs 'eliminate 20% of tumours'

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Skin cancer: Pair of drugs 'eliminate 20% of tumours'
By James Gallagher Health editor, BBC News website

A fifth of people with advanced melanoma have no sign of tumours in their body after treatment with a pair of immunotherapy drugs, a study shows.

The first survival data on using ipilimumab and nivolumab in combination showed 69% of patients, in a trial on 142, were still alive after two years.

UK doctors leading the trial said the results were "very encouraging".

Melanoma, the most serious form of skin cancer, is the sixth most common cancer in the UK

It kills more than 2,000 people in Britain each year.

More studies on the emerging field of immunotherapy will be presented later.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-36043882

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