Merck & Co closes higher on Keytruda promise in adjuvant lung cancer study

18 March 2022

US pharma giant Merck & Co (NYSE: MRK) closed 1% higher on Thursday.

The company had earlier announced results from a Phase III trial alongside the European Organization for Research and Treatment of Cancer and the European Thoracic Oncology Platform.

"The sixth positive pivotal study evaluating a Keytruda-based regimen in earlier stages of cancer"It was found that adjuvant treatment with Keytruda (pembrolizumab) significantly improved disease-free survival (DFS), one of the study’s dual primary endpoints, reducing the risk of disease recurrence or death by 24% compared to placebo in stage IB to IIIA non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) following surgical resection, regardless of PD-L1 expression.

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