Merck Receives Positive EU CHMP Opinion for Updated Label of KEYTRUDA® (pembrolizumab) To Include Results of Phase 3 KEYNOTE-361 Trial in Certain Adult Patients with Locally Advanced or Metastatic Urothelial Cancer
KENILWORTH, N.J. -- Merck (NYSE: MRK), known as MSD outside the United States and Canada, today announced that the Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP) of the European Medicines Agency (EMA) has adopted a positive opinion recommending that the European label for KEYTRUDA, Merck’s anti-PD-1 therapy, be updated to include data from KEYNOTE-361, a Phase 3, open-label trial that evaluated KEYTRUDA as a monotherapy and in combination with chemotherapy for the first-line treatment of certain patients with advanced or metastatic urothelial carcinoma. In Europe, KEYTRUDA is approved for the treatment of adult patients with advanced or metastatic urothelial carcinoma (bladder cancer) who are not eligible for cisplatin-containing chemotherapy and whose tumors express PD-L1 with a Combined Positive Score (CPS) ≥10. This approval was based on a single-arm study, KEYNOTE-052; KEYNOTE-361 was conducted as part of a post-marketing commitment following the initial approval of KEYTRUDA for these patients.
As previously announced, KEYNOTE-361 did not meet its primary endpoints of progression-free survival (PFS) and overall survival (OS) for the combination of KEYTRUDA plus chemotherapy. However, the CHMP concluded that the benefit-risk profile remains positive and that including data from KEYNOTE-361 in the label allows physicians to evaluate the potential benefit-risk of KEYTRUDA on an individual basis.
“KEYTRUDA has become an important treatment option for certain patients with locally advanced or metastatic bladder cancer in the European Union and other countries around the world,” said Dr. Scot Ebbinghaus, vice president, clinical research, Merck Research Laboratories. “We are pleased with today’s positive opinion by the CHMP, which fulfills our post-marketing requirement for KEYTRUDA in these patients in the European Union and will enable continued access for patients in need of another treatment option.”
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