Keytruda becomes first anti-PD-1 therapy to receive a CHMP positive opinion for previously untreated NSCLC

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MERCK announced that the Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use of the European Medicines Agency adopted a positive opinion recommending approval of Keytruda (pembrolizumab) for the first-line treatment of metastatic non-small cell lung cancer in adults whose tumors have high PD-L1 expression (tumor proportion score [TPS] of 50 percent or more) with no EGFR or ALK positive tumor mutations.

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