New kidney cancer hope

A ‘BREAKTHROUGH’ combination of drugs is set to give hope to thousands of patients with kidney cancer, scientists will announce today.

A trial found that ipilimumab and nivolumab together cleared tumours from up to a tenth of patients whose kidney cancer had spread to other organs, after a four-month treatment regime.

Professor John Wagstaff of Swansea University Medical School said: ‘I think this is probably a breakthrough.

‘It has the potential to improve and prolong the lives of thousands of patients.’

Kidney cancer claims 4,400 lives in Britain each year.