Cancer Immunotherapy: When To Stop Treatment Remains Unanswered Question
Executive Summary
Long-term or open-ended treatment with PD-1/PD-L1 inhibitors is a burden for patients and the healthcare system and does not fit the biological paradigm of cancer immunotherapies, experts say; however, challenges to studying shorter durations include fears of undertreatment and patient objections to stopping a therapy that appears to be working.
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