Est. 2026 · Armando Cuesta, MD, Founding Editor
The Vital RecordThe daily record of medicine and biotech.
Tuesday, 2 June 2026 · Vol. 1 · No. 1
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Research · Tuesday, 2 June 2026
The 935-patient ANVIL trial, published in JAMA, found no disease-free survival benefit from a year of nivolumab after resection of non-small cell lung cancer.
Research · Tuesday, 2 June 2026
ASTRUM-006, in The Lancet, reports longer event-free survival when the PD-1 antibody serplulimab is added to perioperative chemotherapy, with the benefit shown first in the most PD-L1-rich patients — but overall survival data are not yet mature.