Health Canada approves Keytruda for gastroesophageal cancer

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Health Canada approved Keytruda (pembrolizumab), Merck’s anti-PD-1 therapy, in combination with fluoropyrimidine- and platinum-containing-chemotherapy, for the first-line treatment of adult patients with locally advanced unresectable or metastatic HER2-negative gastric or gastroesophageal junction adenocarcinoma. 

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