Immunotherapy appears better than chemotherapy at treating aggressive form of skin cancer

Wednesday, March 6, 2019 - 08:40 in Health & Medicine

A new study from researchers at Johns Hopkins shows that an immunotherapy drug appears to treat Merkel cell carcinoma, a rare but aggressive form of skin cancer, more effectively and with better survival rates than does conventional chemotherapy. The findings, published in the Journal of Clinical Oncology, supported the recent move by the U.S. Food and Drug […]

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