Today we sit down (in person!) with Dr. Jeff Bien of Stanford University to break down all the details -- from the methods to the statistical analysis to the conclusions -- of the CheckMate 649 trial, which pitted first-line nivolumab plus chemotherapy against chemotherapy alone for advanced gastric, gastro-oesophageal junction, and oesophageal adenocarcinoma.

CheckMate 649: doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(21)00797-2

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4.10 A Deep Dive into CheckMate 649 with Dr. Jeffrey Bien

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