Despite a risk for severe side effects, pembrolizumab has a record of improving recurrence-free survival that makes it an appealing treatment for advanced melanoma.

Merck & Co.‘s planned debut this fall of an injectable form of its breakthrough cancer treatment Keytruda will simplify care, ...

Its biggest would-be competitor is ivonescimab, a medicine being developed in the U.S. by Summit Therapeutics. It delivered positive clinical trial results in China in a phase 3 study in which it went ...

Keytruda is set to lose exclusivity in 2028, meaning Summit may face competition from cheaper biosimilars. Meanwhile, other ...

New Jersey-based pharmaceutical giant Merck is investing $1 billion in what company executives described as a continued ...

The firm is studying the combination in the first-line setting for head and neck cancer patients who had a PD-L1 combined positive score of less than 1.

First-line treatment with a Keytruda combo had an overall survival of 17.6 months in some with recurrent/metastatic head and ...

Immutep believes its LAG-3 candidate eftilagimod alpha may have a path to approval in first-line head and neck cancer after ...

Merck is injecting $1 billion into a new facility in Wilmington, Delaware to amp up U.S. drug production, especially for its ...

Immutep (ASX: IMM) has announced a solid median overall survival (OS) rate in Cohort B of its TACTI-003 (Keynote-C34) Phase ...

Merck, the New Jersey-based drug giant, is spending $1 billion on a new Delaware factory to bring production of its best-selling cancer drug Keytruda to the U.S. and speed future medicines to market.

The American Association for Cancer Research’s annual conference featured updates from several companies on key candidates ...