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In the KEYNOTE-024 study, a total of 305 patients were randomized to either a treatment regimen of Keytruda at a dose of 200 mg every three weeks, or investigator’s choice of platinum-doublet chemotherapy, which most commonly included carboplatin plus pemetrexed (67 patients).
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These results have been hailed as practice-changing, and they have since led to the FDA approval of pembrolizumab as a frontline treatment for these patients with PD-L1 tumor expression based on an FDA-approved test, who do not harbor EGFR or ALK aberrations.Īlong with the agent’s frontline approval, the FDA has also authorized an update to Keytruda’s label to include data from the KEYNOTE-010 trial, which looked at the PD-1 inhibitor in the second-line setting and beyond for patients with NSCLC and PD-L1 expression levels of 1 percent or higher who have progressed on platinum-based chemotherapy and EGFR- or ALK-targeted therapy for individuals harboring those aberrations. In the KEYNOTE-024 trial, single-agent Keytruda reduced the risk of death by 40 percent and improved progression-free survival (PFS) by 4.3 months compared with doublet chemotherapy for untreated patients with advanced NSCLC with PD-L1 expression on 50 percent or more of cells. “Pembrolizumab was associated with a clinically meaningful improvement in healthcare QoL, and in the time to deterioration for cough, dyspnea, and chest pain, compared with platinum-based chemotherapy,” Julie Brahmer, M.D., associate professor of oncology, Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins in Baltimore, said in a statement. The prespecified exploratory patient-reported outcomes (PRO) analysis sought to determine if these positive results would translate into significant improvements in QoL for this patient population, an important metric in anti-cancer therapy as it relates to treatment in the first-line setting.
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There was a quality of life (QoL) improvement for patients with non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) who were treated with the Keytruda (pembrolizumab) arm of the KEYNOTE-024 compared to those who had standard chemotherapy, according to new data from the trial presented at the IASLC 17th World Conference on Lung Cancer in Vienna, Austria.
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