Acupressure and gentle massage can be used to treat a pinched nerve. Acupuncture may treat a pinched nerve. The main treatment for a pinched nerve is rest. A woman with neck pain from a pinched nerve.
Yervoy is the first drug approved for treating this indication. The FDA has not approved any new first-line medicines in over ten years. A dosage of Yervoy is expected to cost about $30,000; therapy of four infusions over three months will cost around $120,000. The drug is estimated to have a market of more than $400m in 2011.
Yervoy is an example of an emerging class of treatments known as immunotherapy that harness the bodyâs own immune system to fight tumors. Last year, the F.D.A. approved what was considered the first of these treatments, the prostate cancer drug Provenge, developed by Dendreon.