Therapeutic Response

Wild type ALK and Wild type EGFR status confers therapeutic sensitivity to Carboplatin in combination with Paclitaxel and Pembrolizumab in patients with Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer.

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Source and description

Keytruda (pembrolizumab) [product information]. EMA. The European Medicines Agency (EMA) has authorized pembrolizumab in combination with pemetrexed and platinum chemotherapy for the first-line treatment of metastatic non-small cell lung carcinoma in adult patients whose tumors have no EGFR or ALK positive mutations. This indication is based on results from KEYNOTE-024, where patients received pembrolizumab in combination with investigator's choice of platinum-containing chemotherapy, including: pemetrexed with carboplatin, pemetrexed with cisplatin, gemcitabine and cisplatin, gemcitabine and carboplatin, or paclitaxel and carboplatin.