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New Findings Show Anti-Tumor Activity of KEYTRUDA ® (pembrolizumab) in Patients with Advanced Nasopharyngeal Carcinoma

< div class= " field field-type-text field-field-press-release-city field-fieldpressreleasecity " > < div class= " field-label " > Dateline City: < /div > < div class= " field-items " > < div class= " field-item odd " > KENILWORTH, N.J. < /div > < /div > < /div > < div class= " field field-type-text field-field-press-release-subheadline field-fieldpressreleasesubheadline " > < div class= " field-items " > < div class= " field-item odd " > < p > KEYTRUDA Monotherapy Achieved Overall Response Rate of 22.2 Percent in Previously-Treated Patients < /p > < p > Results from KEYNOTE-028 Presented at 2015 European Cancer Congress < /p > < /div > < /div > < /div > < p > KENILWORTH, N.J.--( < a target= " _blank " href= " http://www.businesswire.com " > BUSINESS WIRE < /a > )--Merck (NYSE: MRK), known as MSD outside the United States and Canada, today announced the first-time presentation of findings investigating the use of KEYTRUDA < sup > ® < /sup > (pembrolizumab), the company ’s anti-PD-1 therapy, as a monotherapy in patients with advanced unresectable nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC) – a type of head and neck cancer – whose tumors express PD-L1 (≥1% of cells in tumor nests or PD-L1+ bands in stroma). < /p > < div class= " field field-type-text field-field-press-release-language field-fieldpressreleaselanguage " > < div class= " field-label " > Language: < /div > < div class= " field-item...
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