KEYTRUDA Is First Anti-PD-1/PD-L1 Therapy to Show Overall Survival Improvement in Combination With Chemotherapy With or Without Bevacizumab in These Patients
Results From Phase 3 KEYNOTE-826 Trial Selected for Official Press Program and Presentation During Presidential Symposium at ESMO Congress 2021 and Simultaneously Published in New England Journal of Medicine
KENILWORTH, N.J.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Merck (NYSE: MRK), known as MSD outside the United States and Canada, today announced the presentation of the full results from the pivotal Phase 3 KEYNOTE-826 trial investigating KEYTRUDA, Merck’s anti-PD-1 therapy, in combination with chemotherapy with or without bevacizumab for the first-line treatment of persistent, recurrent or metastatic cervical cancer at the European Society for Medical Oncology (ESMO) Congress 2021 (Abstract #LBA2). These data were also simultaneously published in the New England Journal of Medicine. This is the first combination regimen with an anti-PD-1/PD-L1 therapy to improve overall survival (OS), progression-free survival (PFS) and objective response rate (ORR) compared to chemotherapy with or without bevacizumab as a first-line treatment of persistent, recurrent or metastatic cervical cancer.
KEYTRUDA plus chemotherapy (paclitaxel plus cisplatin or paclitaxel plus carboplatin) with or without bevacizumab (KEYTRUDA plus chemo ± bev) reduced the risk of death by one-third, or 33% (HR=0.67 [95% CI, 0.54-0.84]; p