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Keytruda in patients with high-risk, non-muscle invasive bladder cancer

The FDA ( U.S. Food and Drug Administration ) has accepted and granted priority review for a new supplemental Biologics License Application ( sBLA ) for Keytruda ( Pembrolizumab ), an anti-PD-1 therap ... read article

Metastatic or unresectable recurrent head and neck squamous cell carcinoma: Keytruda, as monotherapy or in combination with Platinum and 5-Fluorouracil chemotherapy, in patients whose tumors express PD-L1

The Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use ( CHMP ) of the European Medicines Agency ( EMA ) has adopted a positive opinion recommending approval of two regimens of Keytruda ( Pembrolizumab ), ... read article

Pembrolizumab improves overall survival and progression-free survival as first-line treatment for squamous non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) in KEYNOTE-407 trial

The pivotal phase 3 KEYNOTE-407 trial investigating Pembrolizumab ( Keytruda ), an anti-PD-1 therapy, in combination with Carboplatin-paclitaxel or nab-Paclitaxel, as first-line treatment for metastat ... read article

KEYNOTE-061, Pembrolizumab does not meet primary endpoint of overall survival in previously treated patients with gastric or gastroesophageal junction adenocarcinoma

The pivotal phase 3 KEYNOTE-061 trial investigating Pembrolizumab ( Keytruda ), an anti-PD-1 therapy, as a second-line treatment for patients with advanced gastric or gastroesophageal junction ( GEJ ) ... read article

Update on European application for Keytruda in combination with Pemetrexed and Carboplatin for first-line treatment of nonsquamous non-small cell lung cancer

Merck ( MSD ) has withdrawn its European application for Keytruda ( Pembrolizumab ) in combination with Pemetrexed and Carboplatin as a first-line treatment for metastatic nonsquamous non-small cell l ... read article

Keytruda in recurrent or metastatic head and neck cancer, FDA granted priority review

The FDA ( Food and Drug Administration ) has accepted for review the supplemental Biologics License Application ( sBLA ) for Keytruda ( Pembrolizumab ), an anti-PD-1 therapy, for the treatment of pati ... read article

Advanced melanoma: Pembrolizumab, an immunoinhibitory checkpoint protein

Pembrolizumab ( Keytruda ) is a humanized monoclonal antibody against programmed death receptor-1 ( PD-1 ), a key immunoinhibitory checkpoint protein implicated in down-regulating anti-tumour immune r ... read article

Pembrolizumab for the treatment of non-small cell lung carcinoma

Immune checkpoint inhibitors targeting programmed death protein 1 ( PD-1 ) receptor and its ligand, PD-L1, have recently led to significant and durable improvements in the clinical outcomes of some ty ... read article

Advanced melanoma: positive CHMP opinion for Keytruda

The CHMP ( Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use ) has adopted a positive opinion, recommending the granting of a marketing authorisation for the medicinal product Keytruda, intended as monot ... read article

Keytruda, an anti-PD-1 therapy, in advanced non-small cell lung cancer

The supplemental Biologics License Application ( sBLA ) for anti-PD-1 therapy, Keytruda ( Pembrolizumab ), for the treatment of patients with advanced non-small cell lung cancer ( NSCLC ) whose diseas ... read article