A Phase III Randomized Trial of MK-3475 (Pembrolizumab) Versus Standard Treatment in Subjects With Recurrent or Metastatic Head and Neck Cancer
Latest Information Update: 03 Jan 2025
At a glance
- Drugs Pembrolizumab (Primary) ; Cetuximab; Docetaxel; Methotrexate
- Indications Carcinoma; Head and neck cancer; Hypopharyngeal cancer; Laryngeal cancer; Mouth neoplasm; Oropharyngeal cancer; Squamous cell cancer
- Focus Registrational; Therapeutic Use
- Acronyms KEYNOTE-040
- Sponsors Merck Sharp & Dohme Corp.
- 01 Dec 2023 Results of post hoc subgroup analysis by disease recurrence pattern, published in the Oral Oncology
- 19 Apr 2023 Results assessing plasma circulating tumor DNA (ctDNA)-based whole genome sequencing (pWGS) and whole exome sequencing (pWES) and concordance with tumor tissue whole exome sequencing from two studies KEYNOTE-040 and KEYNOTE-045 presented at the 114th Annual Meeting of the American Association for Cancer Research
- 04 Mar 2023 This trial has been completed in Spain, According to European Clinical Trials Database record.