Keytruda’s cervical cancer data; Arcutis’ offering; Alaya.bio announces a CAR-T deal

Keytru­da’s pos­i­tive cer­vi­cal can­cer da­ta: Mer­ck said Fri­day that its pow­er­house can­cer drug re­duced the risk of dis­ease pro­gres­sion or death in ad­vanced cer­vi­cal can­cer by 30% in Phase III study re­sults pre­sent­ed at ES­MO. Me­di­an pro­gres­sion-free sur­vival was not reached in ei­ther arm, but PFS at 24 months was 67.8% for the new­ly di­ag­nosed pa­tients who re­ceived Keytru­da on top of chemother­a­py com­pared to 57.3% for those who re­ceived chemother­a­py alone.

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