The US Food and Drug Administration announced that the drug ipilimumab (brand name Yervoy) has been approved for the treatment of patients with metastatic melanoma. It is the first drug ever shown to improve overall survival for patients with advanced melanoma. Ipilimumab uses a novel approach known as immunotherapy, which exploits the body's own immune system to attack cancer. The therapy, originally known as anti-CTLA-4, was developed in 1996 by James Allison, PhD, Chair of the Sloan-Kettering Institute's Immunology Program at MSKCC. For more than 20 years, Dr...
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