Pooled Analysis Continues to Show Merck’s KEYTRUDA® (pembrolizumab) in Combination with Chemotherapy Improved Overall Survival Versus Chemotherapy Alone as First-Line Treatment for Patients with Advanced NSCLC Whose Tumors Do Not Express PD-L1

KENILWORTH, N.J.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–

Merck (NYSE: MRK), known as MSD outside the United States and Canada, today announced that first-line treatment with KEYTRUDA, Merck’s anti-PD-1 therapy, in combination with chemotherapy demonstrated improvements in overall survival (OS), progression-free survival (PFS) and objective response rate (ORR) in a pooled analysis of a subgroup of patients with advanced nonsquamous and squamous non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) whose tumors do not express PD-L1 (tumor proportion score [TPS] <1%) from three randomized trials.

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