Benefits

  • Can miss the window by waiting for surgery
  • Improved immune response
  • Can inform post surgical treatment options

Definitions

  • Pathological system
  • Among patients with resectable, macroscopic stage III melanoma, neoadjuvant ipilimumab plus nivolumab followed by surgery and response-driven adjuvant therapy resulted in longer event-free survival than surgery followed by adjuvant nivolumab.