Budesonide is not beneficial for the treatment of diarrhoea in metastatic melanoma patients
Wednesday, August 12, 2009 - 08:49
in Health & Medicine
Patients with stage III or IV melanoma taking ipilimumab and the oral steroid budesonide to reduce side effects did not have less diarrhoea, a known side effect of ipilimumab, according to results of a phase II trial published in Clinical Cancer Research, a journal of the American Association for Cancer Research...