Merck's Keytruda shown to extend lung cancer survival in two trials [Reuters (UK)]
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Merck's Keytruda shown to extend lung cancer survival in two trials | Reuters 4 Min Read CHICAGO (Reuters) - New trial results show that Merck & Co’s Keytruda improves survival as a stand-alone treatment for newly diagnosed lung cancer and in combination with chemotherapy for hard-to-treat squamous cell lung cancer. The results, presented at the annual meeting of the American Society for Clinical Oncology in Chicago, add to the argument that Keytruda has “set the floor against which other therapies will need to be compared,” Roy Baynes, head of clinical development at Merck, told Reuters. Keytruda, along with drugs like Roche’s Tecentriq and Bristol-Myers Squibb’s Opdivo, is designed to unleash the body’s immune system to attack cancer cells. One trial involved 1,274 patients with advanced non-small cell lung cancer who tested positive for the PDL1 protein targeted by Keytruda. It showed that Keytruda patients lived for a median of 16.7 months, compared with 12.1 percent for patients
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