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By Takashi Ebisawa Ono Pharmaceutical/Bristol-Myers Squibb’s Opdivo (nivolumab) has been the leader in the checkpoint inhibitor market since it earned the world’s first approval in Japan in 2014. With archrival Keytruda (pembrolizumab) notching up breakneck growth in the lung…
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