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Are you altering your use of immune checkpoint inhibitors given the risk of immune-related pneumonitis and the COVID-19 outbreak?

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Medical Oncology · Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center

The management of advanced cancer patients has gotten even more complex with the COVID-19 pandemic. In general, providers are trying to keep patients away from the hospital/clinic as much as possible, and avoiding regimens with greater toxicity if there are suitable less toxic alternatives. Whether ...

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Medical Oncology · NYU Winthrop Hospital

Nivolumab can be used every 4 weeks rather than every 2 weeks.

We have to be flexible and change our approach according to circumstances.

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