First Combination of Immunotherapy With Tyrosine Kinase Inhibitor Approved in Europe for Adult Patients With Advanced or Recurrent Endometrial Carcinoma With Disease Progression on or Following Prior Treatment With a Platinum-Containing Therapy in Any Setting and Who Are Not Candidates for Curative Surgery or Radiation
Approval Based on KEYNOTE-775/Study 309 Results Demonstrating Statistically Significant Improvements in Overall Survival and Progression-Free Survival Compared With Chemotherapy
KENILWORTH, N.J. & TOKYO--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Merck (NYSE: MRK), known as MSD outside the United States and Canada, and Eisai today announced that the European Commission has approved the combination of KEYTRUDA, Merck’s anti-PD-1 therapy, plus LENVIMA, the orally available multiple receptor tyrosine kinase inhibitor discovered by Eisai, for the treatment of advanced or recurrent endometrial carcinoma in adults who have disease progression on or following prior treatment with a platinum‑containing therapy in any setting and who are not candidates for curative surgery or radiation. This marks the first combination of an immunotherapy with a tyrosine kinase inhibitor approved in Europe for these patients with advanced or recurrent endometrial carcinoma.
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The approval is based on results from the pivotal Phase 3 KEYNOTE-775/Study 309 trial, in which KEYTRUDA plus LENVIMA demonstrated statistically significant improvements in overall survival (OS), reducing the risk of death by 38% (HR=0.62 [95% CI, 0.51-0.75]; p