ESMO: Pivotal Keytruda Combination Hits And Misses

Merck & Co’s mega-blockbuster checkpoint inhibitor Keytruda hit new clinical highs and lows at ESMO as the major ramps up efforts to expand the drug’s label by exploring novel combinations and cancer settings.  

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Merck & Co., Inc. has unveiled results from several pivotal studies involving its PD-L1 inhibitor Keytruda (pembrolizumab) in new combinations at the European Society for Medical Oncology. Scrip dives into four major hits and misses in a range of combinations and tumor types and what they could mean for the future of the product.

Keytruda and Eisai Co., Ltd.’s tyrosine kinase inhibitor Lenvima (lenvatinib) missed the mark in the Phase III LEAP-002 trial...

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