Keytruda

Feb 07, 2023

Merck Wins Another FDA Approval for Blockbuster Keytruda Merck & Co arrived just two months after GSK celebrated a positive phase III result with its checkpoint inhibitor Jemperli as a first-line therapy for endometrial cancer. Keytruda (pembrolizumab) from Merck improved progression-free survival (PFS) vers...

Dec 02, 2022

The development of tumor therapy in cancer immunotherapy has been aided by programmed death receptor-1 and programmed death protein ligand inhibitors. Since its discovery in 1990, the programmed cell death protein 1 receptor (PD-1) receptor has been known to negatively regulate T-cell mediated immune response via i...

May 31, 2022

Bristol-Myers Squibb’s Opdivo Gets FDA Approval for Esophageal Cancer The FDA has approved two combination drug regimens based on Bristol-Myers Squibb’s PD-1 inhibitor Opdivo for previously untreated advanced Esophageal Cancer, encroaching on the territory belonging to Merck & Co’s rival Keytruda. The latest...

Jan 10, 2022

Colorectal cancer is a disease in which malignant (cancer) cells form in the tissues of the colon or the rectum. Colorectal Cancer is the third most lethal and fourth most commonly diagnosed cancer in the world. In 2020, nearly 2 million new cases were expected, with approximately 1 million deaths across the globe....

Jun 05, 2020

Prostate Cancer Market Size is Expected to Increase with a CAGR of 8.1% in the 7MM for the study period of 2017-30 owing to rich Pipeline, Increasing Awareness and Better Treatment Options. A malignancy of prostate glands, Prostate Cancer, develops slowly and remains confined to prostate glands, however, can inv...

Jan 15, 2020

The Malignant Pleural Mesothelioma Market includes several immunotherapy agents, in the pipeline including Keytruda, Opdivo and Yervoy, which have shown promising anticancer activity against mesothelioma in recent clinical trials. These drugs have been approved for other indications and now are being used in mono...

May 23, 2019

Merck decides to acquire Peloton Therapeutics, fortifying Oncology pipeline Merck is ready to buy Peloton Therapeutics for USD 1.1 million. The companies have entered into a definitive agreement which will give Merck rights over an oral HIF-2α inhibitor- PT2977, which is Peloton’s lead candidate for the treatme...

May 02, 2019

EISAI now solely responsible for lemborexant Eisai today announced that its U.S. subsidiary has bought out  Purdue Pharma L.P.’s rights in the worldwide collaboration for the development and commercialization of lemborexant, an investigational sleep-wake regulation agent being studied for the treatment of multip...

Apr 23, 2019

Keytruda wins FDA nod for treating Kidney Cancer Merck’s Keytruda has recently got the U.S. FDA approval to be administered for Kidney Cancer. The drug Keytruda was approved in combination with Pfizer’s Inlyta for the treatment of advanced renal carcinoma. This therapy could prove to be serious for competition B...

Nov 12, 2018

Could a virus be a treatment therapy? Confusing, isn't it? On the face value, it seems no; but on delving deeper, the confusion dissipates. There have been tireless efforts among a section of scientists to convert certain viruses through biotechnology techniques into anti-disease agents to infect and destroy cancer ...