FDA approves Mercado-heavy immunotherapy Keytruda (pembrolizumab) to treat patients with advanced cervical cancer
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Last Update: 2020-06-11
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recently, the(MSD) of Theof Mersadon announced that the U.SFDAapprove its heavy immunotherapy, The Keytruda, to treat patients with advanced cervical cancerKeytrudaKeytruda is a monoclonal antibody that binds to pD-1 receptors, blocks its interaction with PD-L1 and PD-L2, and suppresses tumors through PD-1 pathway-mediated immune responses, including anti-tumor immune responsesIn tumor models in mice with the same genotype, Keytruda blocks PD-1 activity and slows tumor growthbefore that, Keytruda had been approved for cancer treatment for melanoma, non-small cell lung cancer, classic Hodgkin's lymphoma, head and neck squamous, and urinary skin cancerstudiesthe effectiveness of Keytruda in cervical cancer has been demonstrated in a clinicaltrialcalled KEYNOTE-158KEYNOTE-158 II Is a global, open, non-random, multilinear, multicenter clinical study with objective remission (ORR), which recruited 98 patients with recurrent or metastatic cervical cancer and received Keytruda (200mg) treatment every three weeksin 77 (79%) patients who expressed PD-L1 (no less than 1 overall positive score), Keytruda achieved an overall remission rate of 14.3% (95% CI: 7.4% - 24.1%), with a full remission rate of 2.6%In patients whose treatment took effect, the median remission time had not yet been reached, and 91% of patients had more than half a year of remission timeKeytruda did not show results in patients with a tumor PD-L1 expression of less than 1 based on this data, the FDA approved its listing to treat patients with advanced cervical cancer that is still developing after chemotherapy and expressed PD-L1
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