Researchers at the Spanish National Cancer Research Center and the 12 de Octubre University Hospital in Madrid have developed a new immunotherapy to treat multiple myeloma that shows, in the laboratory, to be more effective than the immunotherapy currently used as preferred treatment.
The phase III KEYNOTE-811 trial evaluating Keytruda (pembrolizumab), Merck’s anti-PD-1 therapy, in combination with trastuzumab and fluoropyrimidine- and platinum-containing chemotherapy met its dual primary endpoint of overall survival for the first-line treatment of patients with human epidermal growth factor receptor 2-positive locally advanced unresectable or metastatic gastric or gastroesophageal junction adenocarcinoma.
