Positive EU CHMP Opinion for KEYTRUDA + Trastuzumab + Chemo as 1L Treatment for HER2-Positive Advanced GEJ Adenocarcinoma Expressing PD-L1 (CPS ≥1)

“This positive CHMP opinion reinforces our commitment to bringing meaningful treatment options to patients living with HER2-positive gastric or GEJ cancer, whose tumors express PD-L1 with a combined positive score ≥1, in the European Union,” said Dr. Scot Ebbinghaus, vice president, global clinical development, Merck Research Laboratories. “We look forward to the European Commission’s decision and are excited at the possibility of bringing the first approved immunotherapy regimen for the first-line treatment of these patients with HER2-positive advanced gastric or GEJ cancer to the EU.”

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