Mer­ck­'s Keytru­da builds a com­mand­ing lead in front­line lung can­cer with da­ta from two more land­mark tri­als

CHICA­GO — Mer­ck came to AS­CO as the dom­i­nant in­dus­try play­er in front­line lung can­cer. It’s go­ing to leave AS­CO with that rep in­tact — at the ex­pense of its heavy­weight ri­vals in the field still play­ing catch-up.

In two key stud­ies out this morn­ing, the phar­ma gi­ant spelled out pos­i­tive, crit­i­cal­ly im­por­tant da­ta un­der­scor­ing Keytru­da’s abil­i­ty to fight a broad seg­ment of the cas­es in the first-line lung can­cer field as a monother­a­py, with the Keytru­da/chemo com­bo the best op­tion (so far) in front­line squa­mous cas­es, where Roche tried — and large­ly failed — to el­bow ahead this week­end.

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