Combining new immune-boosting cancer drugs with each other or with older drugs improved survival in patients with lung cancer, compared with traditional chemotherapy, new studies found.
The benefits of the new cocktails, which include immunotherapies from Merck & Co. and Bristol-Myers Squibb Co., come with high price tags because they combine already expensive drugs, a trend that worries doctors even as they welcome advances in treating lung cancer, the deadliest type of tumor.
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