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The Promise of Merck's Pembrolizumab in PD-L1-expressing NSCLC
Pembrolizumab was safe and effective in patients with locally advanced or metastatic non—small cell lung cancer that strongly expressed PD-L1, according to study results presented at the ASCO Annual Meeting.
Edward B. Garon, MD, assistant clinical professor and director of the thoracic oncology program at the David Geffen School of Medicine at the University of California, Los Angeles, and colleagues sought to evaluate pembrolizumab (Merck) — previously known as lambrolizumab and MK-3475 — among patients with previously treated advanced NSCLC.
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“We presented the initial data from lung cancer patients at the World Conference on Lung Cancer in Sydney last fall,” Garon told . “The question at that time was whether the impressive efficacy and tolerable safety profile could be confirmed in a larger population. We have now demonstrated similar results in over 200 additional patients.”
The analysis included 217 patients who were tested for PD-L1 expression using immunohistochemistry (IHC).
Read the report here: http://bit.ly/1kn49ov
Source: Healio
Oncology Onward: A Conversation With Penn Medicine's Dr Justin Bekelman
December 19th 2023Justin Bekelman, MD, director of the Penn Center for Cancer Care Innovation, sat with our hosts Emeline Aviki, MD, MBA, and Stephen Schleicher, MD, MBA, for our final episode of 2023 to discuss the importance of collaboration between academic medicine and community oncology and testing innovative cancer care delivery in these settings.
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Trastuzumab Deruxtecan Receives FDA Approval for HER2-Positive Solid Tumors
April 5th 2024FDA granted accelerated approval to trastuzumab deruxtecan-nxki for adult patients with unresectable or metastatic HER2-positive solid tumors who received prior systemic treatment and have no satisfactory alternative treatment options.
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