Adding pembrolizumab before and after surgery reduced recurrence and improved response in patients with locally advanced head and neck squamous cell carcinoma, according to new phase III trial data.

Pembrolizumab (Keytruda) given before and after surgery to supplement adjuvant therapy improved responses and survival in ...

Adding perioperative pembrolizumab to standard care can improve EFS in locally advanced head and neck cancer, data suggest.

Pembrolizumab alone or in combination with chemotherapy can provide long-term benefits over chemotherapy alone in recurrent or metastatic HNSCC, data suggest.

Adding pembrolizumab (Keytruda), before and after surgery, to standard adjuvant therapy for locally advanced head and neck ...

Patients with stage IV ovarian cancer can derive long-term benefits from neoadjuvant pembrolizumab and chemotherapy if they achieve a major pathologic response, according to research published in ...

Ravindra Uppaluri, MD, PhD, discussed the KEYNOTE-689 trial, which investigated pembrolizumab in locally advanced head and ...

Pembrolizumab combo before/after surgery and radiation significantly improved event-free survival in resectable advanced head ...

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The addition of neoadjuvant and adjuvant pembrolizumab to standard of care significantly improved outcomes for certain ...

Can ctDNA-guided therapy stop cancer’s return, sparing patients unnecessary treatment? A new study suggests it might.

Our data clearly show that it is feasible and safe to implement stepwise acceleration of nivolumab and pembrolizumab administration to a 10-minute infusion time,” the researchers wrote.