FDA approves Merck’s Keytruda for lung cancer treatment

Keytruda, a lung cancer treatment medication manufactured by Merck was approved Oct. 24 by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), reports The Wall Street Journal.

The medication, meant to treat patients with metastatic non-small cell lung cancer, can be used instead of chemotherapy for patients with this type of cancer.

Keytruda was initially approved in 2014 to treat melanoma and is in a clinical development program to determine if it can also treat 30 other tumor types.

To read more about the medication and how it will change how physicians treat lung cancer, follow the link below:

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