The overall response rate was significantly higher for Keytruda plus chemotherapy versus chemotherapy alone (52% versus 29%). The approval marks first indication for Keytruda in MPM in the US ...

Merck & Co. Inc. said Wednesday the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved its blockbuster cancer drug Keytruda as a treatment for malignant plural mesothelioma, a rare cancer associated ...

Two phase 3 trials of Merck & Co's Keytruda in metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer (CRPC) and advanced liver cancer have ended in failure, proving once again that cancer immunotherapy ...

Keytruda plus chemo has been approved for unresectable advanced or metastatic malignant pleural mesothelioma based on findings from the KEYNOTE-483 trial. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) ...

Merck & Co's KEYNOTE-158 trial of Keytruda has underpinned another FDA approval, this time for the PD-1 inhibitor as a single-agent therapy as a therapy for endometrial cancer with certain genetic ...

Merck (NYSE:MRK) announced Saturday that its anti-PD-1 therapy Keytruda (pembrolizumab) as part of a combination regimen reduced the risk of death by 20% as a first-line option for certain ...

At the European Society for Medical Oncology Congress on September 13–17, promising results from the Phase III KEYNOTE-522 study involving MSD's neoadjuvant Keytruda (pembrolizumab) plus ...

Merck’s (NYSE:MRK) anti-PD-1 therapy Keytruda as part of a combination regimen with Eisai’s (OTCPK:ESALF) (OTCPK:ESAIY) Lenvima has reduced the risk of disease progression or death by 34% in a ...

This week’s quarterly results from Merck looked pretty good, all things considered: Sales and earnings came in ahead of Wall ...

The company (MRK) said the approval is the first for Keytruda to treat MPM in the U.S. and is in combination with pemetrexed and platinum chemotherapy. MPM is a rare and aggressive malignancy ...