Chicago – it’s Monday at ASCO 2015, with a full day of symposia, oral abstracts and posters here in Chicago.

Yesterday in the Plenary Session here at ASCO, Dr Jedd Wolchok (Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center) presented the results of the Checkmate 067 trial (LBA1) – the results of a phase III trial of nivolumab (NIVO) alone combined with ipilimumab (IPI) versus IPI alone in treatment naive patients with advanced melanoma. You can read more about this in our ASCO Day 3 highlights.

Checkpoint inhibitors have been a real buzz at this meeting, but with the realization that they are not going to work in all patients, and other treatments are not going away… for all the promise there’s still a lot of work to do optimize cancer immunotherapy.

There’s also been a lot of talk at ASCO about PD-L1 as a biomarker, and if you haven’t already done so, do check-out Episode 2 of the Novel Targets podcast (The Immune Biomarker Show) that touches upon many of the key issues.

If you haven’t already done so, do check out yesterday’s post on the metastatic lung cancer session, including the AZD9291 vs. rociletinib race to market in T790M, because there was some interesting new data presented that will likely have an impact today.

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