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Reportedly, U.S FDA has granted approval to Merck & Co Inc.’s (MRK) immunotherapy Keytruda for the treatment of an early form of breast cancer, used in combination with chemotherapy.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s approval is for the treatment of triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC), which is aggressive and difficult to treat with an increased risk of recurrence. Approximately10-15% of patients with breast cancer are diagnosed with TNBC, and is more common in people below 40 years of age and who are African American.
The trial data from over 1,000 patients displayed that the drug, in combination with chemotherapy before surgery and then used as monotherapy after surgery, helped protract the time that a patient remained cancer-free. Keytruda has been gaining approvals for treating 30 types of cancer, pushing the drug’s sales which have overtaken those of rival immunotherapies by Bristol Myers Squibb and Roche. Sales of Keytruda, now approved in the United States to treat, touched $14.4 billion in 2020.
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