Neoadjuvant Pembrolizumab Plus Chemo Treats Early TNBC
Researchers found that at 36 months, the estimated event-free survival was 84.5 and 76.8% in the pembrolizumab-chemotherapy and placebo-chemotherapy groups, respectively.
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Researchers found that at 36 months, the estimated event-free survival was 84.5 and 76.8% in the pembrolizumab-chemotherapy and placebo-chemotherapy groups, respectively.
Trials have been launched in a bid to remedy long-running concerns that the system is prone to false alarms and misses cases in some women.
The addition of neoadjuvant pembrolizumab to chemotherapy reduced triple negative breast cancer recurrence by more than a third, trial results suggested.
The trial, named KEYNOTE-522, is the first phase III trial to demonstrate the benefit of adding immunotherapy to chemotherapy before patients receive
Around 15 of all breast cancers (more than 8,000 cases per year in the UK) are triple negative breast cancer.