Pembrolizumab Works Better Than Chemotherapy Alone As Initial Treatment For Nsclc

Dr Lopes speaks with ecancer at the 2018 American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Annual Meeting about results from a trial that show front line pembrolizumab surpassed chemotherapy for lung cancer patients whose tumours had PD-L1 expression and no EGFR/ALK rearrangements.

For more on these results, watch Dr Lopes present the data in a press conference here and read our news coverage here.
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