pembrolizumab

  •   Emma Shtivelman, PhD

    Excerpt from The ASCO Post:

    “Today, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved pembrolizumab (Keytruda) in combination with pemetrexed (Alimta) and platinum as first-line treatment of patients with metastatic, nonsquamous non–small cell lung cancer with no EGFR or ALK genomic tumor aberrations.

    “Pembrolizumab was previously granted accelerated approval for this indication in May 2017 based on improvements in overall response rate and progression-free survival for patients randomized to pembrolizumab administered with pemetrexed and carboplatin as compared with pemetrexed and carboplatin alone in the KEYNOTE-021 study.”

    Go to full article published by The ASCO Post on Aug 20, 2018.

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  •   Emma Shtivelman, PhD

    Excerpt from Healio:

    “The FDA granted priority review designation to a supplemental biologics license application that seeks approval of pembrolizumab for use in combination with chemotherapy as first-line treatment of metastatic squamous non-small cell lung cancer regardless of PD-L1 expression.

    “The agency set a target action date of Oct. 30.”

    Go to full article published by Healio on July 2, 2018.

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