Germany's Merck will provide update on new oncology acquisitions at ESMO 2017

31 August 2017
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Germany’s Merck KGaA (MRK: DE) has said it will present 23 abstracts at next week’s European Society for Medical Oncology Congress (ESMO), one of the leading cancer conferences.

Data bolstering Erbitux (cetuximab) as a standard of care therapy will be presented, including quality of life data in colorectal cancer (CRC) and real-world data in both CRC and squamous cell carcinoma of the head and neck.

Merck says it will provide updated efficacy and safety data for avelumab in metastatic Merkel cell carcinoma and urothelial carcinoma among other cancers.

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