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Someone I know was fortunate enough to get onto one of the clinical trials for ipilimumab - he had Malignant Melanoma that had spread to a nearby organ. He's s
by philjohn 5y ago
Someone I know was fortunate enough to get onto one of the clinical trials for ipilimumab - he had Malignant Melanoma that had spread to a nearby organ.
He's still alive 15 years later, despite the survivability for Melanoma that has spread is dire. That's, of course, a single piece of anecdata, but the power of biologicals in how we treat disease going forward cannot be understated.
- mrosett 5y agoSounds familiar: I had a one-in-four chance of surviving melanoma before I enrolled in a trial of ipilimumab 11 years ago. It really was an amazing breakthrough.