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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Ian Sample Science editor

Half of advanced melanoma patients live for 10 years with double drug treatment

A person being checked for skin cancer
A trial explored two drugs, ipilimumab and nivolumab, in 945 patients with stage 3 or 4 melanoma, where tumours were spreading. Photograph: Dan Himbrechts/AAP

More than half of people diagnosed with advanced melanoma now survive for at least 10 years when they receive a double hit of immunotherapy drugs, a trial has found.

The combined treatment has transformed survival rates for a form of skin cancer that once had a grim prognosis, with some patients now living long enough that they die from other causes.

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