In a stun­ner, Mer­ck leaps ahead of ri­vals with com­bo Keytru­da/chemo at­tack on lung can­cer

Mer­ck’s im­muno-on­col­o­gy team has be­come ex­pert at press­ing an ear­ly ad­van­tage.

The Keytru­da com­pa­ny, which re­cent­ly trounced Bris­tol-My­ers in their ri­val­ry on lung can­cer, has now filed an ear­ly and stun­ning ap­pli­ca­tion to mar­ket a com­bi­na­tion of Keytru­da and chemo for first-line lung can­cer. And the move has the po­ten­tial to carve out a short­cut that will al­low them to cut ahead of a strug­gling As­traZeneca and a po­tent Roche.

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