Keytruda approved as monotherapy in China for NSCLC

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The National Medical Products Administration in China approved Merck’s Keytruda as monotherapy for the first-line treatment of patients with locally advanced or metastatic non-small cell lung cancer whose tumors express PD-L1, with no EGFR or ALK genomic tumor aberrations.

Keytruda is the first anti-PD-1 therapy approved in China as both monotherapy and in combination with chemotherapy for the first-line treatment of patients with NSCLC.

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