Cancer patients in England to be first in Europe to be offered immunotherapy jab

Up to 15,000 could be given nivolumab in injectable form to treat 15 cancers including lung, bowel and skin cancer

Up to 15,000 cancer patients a year could be treated with a quick injection, NHS England announced on Wednesday.

It is the first health service in Europe to offer patients the injectable form of the immunotherapy drug nivolumab.