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European Commission Approves Merck’s KEYTRUDA (pembrolizumab) in Combination with Pemetrexed and Platinum Chemotherapy for the First-Line Treatment of Patients with Metastatic Nonsquamous NSCLC, with No EGFR or ALK Genomic Tumor Aberration

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Additional Relevant Details This approval, the first in Europe for an anti-PD-1 therapy in combination with chemotherapy, is based on data from the pivotal Phase 3 KEYNOTE-189 trial in patients with metastatic nonsquamous NSCLC regardless of PD-L1 tumor expression status, which demonstrated a significant survival benefit for the combination of KEYTRUDA with chemotherapy as compared with standard-of-care chemotherapy alone – reducing the risk of death in these patients by half (HR=0.49 [95% CI, 0.38-0.64]; p<0.00001).
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Sep 10, 2018
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Related Keywords Keytruda, Pembrolizumab