FDA Approves KEYTRUDA for Treatment of Patients With Resectable (T≥4 cm or N+) NSCLC in Combination With Chemo as Neoadjuvant Treatment, Then Continued as a Single Agent as Adjuvant Treatment After Surgery
“There remains a need for treatment options to improve outcomes for patients with earlier stages of non-small cell lung cancer,” said Dr. Heather Wakelee, principal investigator for KEYNOTE-671, thoracic medical oncologist and professor of medicine at Stanford University and past president of the International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer (IASLC). “This important milestone has the potential to change the current treatment paradigm for resectable non-small cell lung cancer that is greater than four centimeters or has lymph node involvement, by offering an immunotherapy-based regimen that has demonstrated statistically significant improvements in overall survival and event-free survival compared to a placebo and chemotherapy regimen.”
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