email article Dual checkpoint blockade with nivolumab (Opdivo) plus ipilimumab (Yervoy) failed to improve outcomes as adjuvant therapy for resected melanoma over nivolumab alone, the CheckMate 915 trial found. In the intent-to-treat (ITT) population of more than 1,800 patients with stage IIIB-D/IV melanoma, relapse-free survival (RFS) at 2 years was nearly identical with the combination versus single-agent PD-1 blockade with nivolumab, at 64.6% and 63.2%, respectively (HR 0.92, 95% CI 0.77-1.09), reported Georgina Long, MBBS, PhD, of the University of Sydney. In the subset with low PD-L1 expression (