The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved Merck’s Keytruda (pembrolizumab) plus chemotherapy as treatment for adult patients with primary advanced or recurrent endometrial carcinoma. This is the third FDA-approved indication for Keytruda in endometrial carcinoma. The approval is for Keytruda, an anti-programmed death receptor-1 (anti-PD-1) therapy, in combination with carboplatin and paclitaxel, followed by Keytruda as a single agent, for the treatment of adult patients with primary advanced or recurrent endometrial carcinoma. The FDA based its approval on data from the Phase III KEYNOTE-868 trial, in which Keytruda plus Read More
