Cancer patients in England to be first in Europe to be offered immunotherapy jab
by Anna Bawden Health and social affairs corresponden from World news | The Guardian on (#6WZJY)
Up to 15,000 could be given nivolumab in injectable form to treat 15 cancers including lung, bowel and skin cancer
Up to 15,000 cancer patients a year could be treated with a quick injection, NHS England has announced.
It is the first health service in Europe to offer patients the injectable form of the immunotherapy drug nivolumab.
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