Melanoma: a dreadful word for those who know what it could mean. In recent years there has been a huge positive jump forward in the treatment with so-called “checkpoint inhibitors.”

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There can also be serious side effects From the Internet: What is the risk of death from immunotherapy?

A broad range of regimen-specific toxic effects caused fatalities in 0.3% to 1.3% of the treated patients; fatal toxic effects tended to occur very early in treatment (median of 40 and 14.5 days for monotherapy and combination immunotherapy, respectively).13 Sept 2018