Combination immunotherapy prior to surgery shows encouraging results in mesothelioma

Results from an early phase clinical trial presented this week at the World Conference on Lung Cancer Meeting in Barcelona, Spain, and published in the Nature Medicine journal today [Monday, 8th September 2025] show that patients with mesothelioma – a rare cancer of the lining of the lung that may be caused by exposure to asbestos – who received a combination of two immunotherapy drugs, nivolumab and ipilimumab, before surgery had successful surgeries and encouraging early outcomes.