One of Mer­ck­'s piv­otal stom­ach can­cer tri­als for Keytru­da flops, just months af­ter an FDA OK

Less than three months af­ter Mer­ck $MRK won an ac­cel­er­at­ed OK to mar­ket Keytru­da as a third-line drug for stom­ach can­cer, the phar­ma gi­ant says their check­point failed to pro­duce ei­ther pos­i­tive over­all sur­vival da­ta or pro­gres­sion-free sur­vival re­sults for the same in­di­ca­tion in a sec­ond-line set­ting.

The piv­otal Phase III flop for ad­vanced gas­tric or gas­troe­sophageal junc­tion ade­no­car­ci­no­ma marks the lat­est in a long string of of­ten sur­pris­ing hits and miss­es in the check­point field.

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