Merck & Co. Inc. said Wednesday the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved its blockbuster cancer drug Keytruda as a treatment for malignant plural mesothelioma, a rare cancer associated ...

Two phase 3 trials of Merck & Co's Keytruda in metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer (CRPC) and advanced liver cancer have ended in failure, proving once again that cancer immunotherapy ...

The overall response rate was significantly higher for Keytruda plus chemotherapy versus chemotherapy alone (52% versus 29%). The approval marks first indication for Keytruda in MPM in the US ...

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A Merck & Co. effort to move its PD-1 behemoth Keytruda into early treatment of lung cancer has reached a dead end, along with another bid to expand into a type of early-stage skin cancer.

Merck & Co's KEYNOTE-158 trial of Keytruda has underpinned another FDA approval, this time for the PD-1 inhibitor as a single-agent therapy as a therapy for endometrial cancer with certain genetic ...

This week’s quarterly results from Merck looked pretty good, all things considered: Sales and earnings came in ahead of Wall ...

Merck’s (NYSE:MRK) anti-PD-1 therapy Keytruda as part of a combination regimen with Eisai’s (OTCPK:ESALF) (OTCPK:ESAIY) Lenvima has reduced the risk of disease progression or death by 34% in a ...

The company (MRK) said the approval is the first for Keytruda to treat MPM in the U.S. and is in combination with pemetrexed and platinum chemotherapy. MPM is a rare and aggressive malignancy ...