Sentences with phrase «agent pembrolizumab»
«The objective overall response rate for the single agent pembrolizumab was up to 35 percent, but why shouldn't more patients respond?»
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PD -1-blocking agents such as nivolumab, pembrolizumab and atezolizumab are part of a class of drugs known as checkpoint inhibitors, and many cancer researchers are now trying to figure out how to enhance their activity by combining them with other types of drugs.
Because they stimulate the immune system rather than introducing an agent or process that can kill healthy cells along with the malignant ones, these therapies — which include commonly prescribed treatments such as trastuzumab (Herceptin), pembrolizumab (Keytruda) and nivolumab (Opdivo)-- have been noteworthy not only for their effectiveness but for their tolerability.
Status: G100 is being studied in a fully - enrolled randomized Phase 2 trial in patients with follicular non-Hodgkin Lymphoma (FL) in combination with local radiation and Merck's anti-PD-1 agent, pembrolizumab, pursuant to a clinical collaboration with Merck.
Immune Design entered into clinical collaboration agreements with Merck, known as MSD outside the U.S. and Canada, to evaluate the safety and efficacy of two Immune Design immuno - oncology investigative agents, G100 and LV305, separately combined with KEYTRUDA ® (pembrolizumab), Merck's anti-PD-1 therapy, in Phase 1 trials in patients with non-Hodgkin's lymphoma (NHL) and melanoma, respectively.