In elderly patients with advanced melanoma and idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis receiving active antifibrotic therapy, would neoadjuvant or adjuvant immune checkpoint inhibition be preferred?
Answer from: Medical Oncologist at Academic Institution
I'd be very careful with the use of immunotherapy in an elderly patient with any sort of autoimmune disease, especially when receiving disease-modifying therapy. Having said that, there is no such contraindication to giving immunotherapy in such patients. Neoadjuvant setting: It is always prefer...