Food and drug administration has accepted merck s application seeking accelerated approval of keytruda pembrolizumab for the treatment of advanced small cell lung cancer sclc patients who failed at least two prior therapies.
Keytruda and small cell lung cancer.
Keytruda pembrolizumab is used to treat advanced melanoma non small cell lung cancer small cell lung cancer head and neck squamous cell carcinoma classical hodgkin lymphoma primary mediastinal large b cell lymphoma urothelial carcinoma microsatellite instability high cancer gastric cancer esophageal cancer cervical cancer hepatocellular carcinoma merkel cell carcinoma renal cell.
Keytruda is a prescription medicine used to treat a kind of lung cancer called non small cell lung cancer nsclc.
The immunotherapy agent keytruda pembrolizumab had an overall response rate orr of 33 percent in a recent trial including patients with extensive stage small cell lung cancer sclc.
On june 17 2019 the food and drug administration granted accelerated approval to pembrolizumab keytruda merck for patients with metastatic small cell lung cancer sclc with disease.
Findings of the phase 1b keynote 028 trial were published in the journal of clinical oncology.