Interim Data to Be Presented for MK-3475, Merck’s Investigational Anti-PD-1 Immunotherapy, in Patients with Advanced Melanoma
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Friday, November 15, 2013 5:00 pm EST
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WHITEHOUSE STATION, N.J.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Merck (NYSE: MRK), known as MSD outside the United States and Canada, will present additional data from patients with advanced melanoma from the Phase IB trial of MK-3475 on Monday, Nov. 18 at the 10th International Congress of the Society for Melanoma Research in Philadelphia. MK-3475 is Merck’s investigational anti-PD-1 immunotherapy. The additional data are from PN001, an ongoing multi-center, single-arm open-label study evaluating MK-3475 monotherapy in more than 1,000 patients with diverse late-stage cancers (metastatic carcinoma), predominantly lung and melanoma. The data to be presented are for patients in the melanoma cohort.
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