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MAY 15, 2017

Keytruda Approved as First-Line Combination Therapy for Metastatic Nonsquamous NSCLC

Drug: Pembrolizumab (Keytruda, Merck)

Status: Approved in combination with pemetrexed (Alimta, Eli Lilly) and carboplatin (Paraplatin, Bristol-Myers Squibb) (pem/carbo) for the first-line treatment of metastatic nonsquamous non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), irrespective of PD-L1 expression

Significant Information:

  • Based on the KEYNOTE-021 trial, which evaluated the combination treatment in 123 previously untreated patients with metastatic nonsquamous NSCLC with no EGFR or ALK genomic tumor