Sentences with phrase «pembrolizumab shrank tumors»

Similarly, pembrolizumab shrank tumors by at least a third in 24 percent of patients.

In Cohort A, pembrolizumab shrunk tumors by more than 30 percent in eight of 170 patients, or five percent, and stabilized the disease in 35, or 21 percent, of those previously treated for mTNBC.

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In Cohort B — those who received pembrolizumab as first - line therapy — 12 of 52 patients, or 23 percent, saw tumors shrink by more than 30 percent, while the disease was stabilized in nine of them, or 17 percent.

«Immunotherapy drug effective for metastatic triple negative breast cancer: Pembrolizumab shown to shrink tumors — regardless of whether patient had prior treatment.»

According to an international clinical trial led by Sylvia Adams, MD, associate professor of medicine, breast tumors shrank by more than 30 percent in 12 (23 percent) of 52 patients who received pembrolizumab as first - line therapy, and the disease stabilized in 9 additional patients (17 percent).