What's Next For Bristol's Opdivo/Yervoy Combination
This article was originally published in The Pink Sheet Daily
Executive Summary
Updated data from CheckMate 012 of Yervoy/Opdivo in first-line lung cancer bode well for the Phase III CheckMate 227 study, plus other indications, Bristol says.
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