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Pembrolizumab plus Chemotherapy in Metastatic Non–Small-Cell Lung Cancer
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BACKGROUND: First-line therapy for advanced non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC) that lacks targetable mutations is platinum-based chemotherapy. Among patients with a tumor proportion score for programmed death ligand 1 (PD-L1) of 50% or greater, pembrolizumab has replaced cytotoxic chemotherapy as the first-line treatment of choice. The addition of pembrolizumab to chemotherapy resulted in significantly higher rates of response and longer progression-free survival than chemotherapy alone in a phase 2 trial. METHODS: In this double-blind, phase 3 trial, we randomly assigned (in a 2:1 ratio) 616 patients with metastatic nonsquamous NSCLC without sensitizing EGFR or ALK mutations who had received no previous treatment for metastatic disease to receive pemetrexed and a platinum-based drug plus either 200 mg of pembrolizumab or placebo every 3 weeks for 4 cycles, followed by pembrolizumab or placebo for up to a total of 35 cycles plus pemetrexed maintenance therapy. Crossover to pembrolizumab monotherapy was permitted among the patients in the placebo-combination group who had verified disease progression. The primary end points were overall survival and progression-free survival, as assessed by blinded, independent central radiologic review. RESULTS: After a median follow-up of 10.5 months, the estimated rate of overall survival at 12 months was 69.2% (95% confidence interval [CI], 64.1 to 73.8) in the pembrolizumab-combination group versus 49.4% (95% CI, 42.1 to 56.2) in the placebo-combination group (hazard ratio for death, 0.49; 95% CI, 0.38 to 0.64; P<0.001). Improvement in overall survival was seen across all PD-L1 categories that were evaluated. Median progression-free survival was 8.8 months (95% CI, 7.6 to 9.2) in the pembrolizumab-combination group and 4.9 months (95% CI, 4.7 to 5.5) in the placebo-combination group (hazard ratio for disease progression or death, 0.52; 95% CI, 0.43 to 0.64; P<0.001). Adverse events of grade 3 or higher occurred in 67.2% of the patients in the pembrolizumab-combination group and in 65.8% of those in the placebo-combination group. CONCLUSIONS: In patients with previously untreated metastatic nonsquamous NSCLC without EGFR or ALK mutations, the addition of pembrolizumab to standard chemotherapy of pemetrexed and a platinum-based drug resulted in significantly longer overall survival and progression-free survival than chemotherapy alone. (Funded by Merck; KEYNOTE-189 ClinicalTrials.gov number, NCT02578680 .).
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“KRAS mutation-positive patients derived benefit in both PFS and OS from the combination of pembrolizumab plus chemotherapy as opposed to platinum doublet therapy alone as first-line therapy for patients with metastatic NSCLC66.”
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“Importantly, two remarkable phase III trials (KEYNOTE-189 and KEYNOTE-407) demonstrated that addition of pembrolizumab (Keytruda, anti-PD1) could significantly prolong the survival of NSCLC patients (45, 97).”
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“The promising results from these studies have led to the approval of pembrolizumab in combination with chemotherapy (carboplatin-pemetrexed) for metastatic, non-squamous NSCLC, and the approval of pembrolizumab in combination with chemotherapy (carboplatin and Taxol) for patients with squamous lung carcinoma, excluding those carrying EGFR or ALK mutations.”
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“Toward this end, combinations of ICTs with concurrent and/or sequential chemotherapy are under extensive investigation, with phase III clinical data demonstrating overall survival and/or progression-free survival benefi t in NSCLC ( 63-66 ), small cell lung cancer ( 51,52 ), triple-negative breast cancer ( 67 ), bladder cancer ( 53 ), and head and neck squamous cell carcinoma ( 68 ).”
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“Later, in two phase 3 clinical studies (KEYNOTE-189 and KEYNOTE-407), pembrolizumab combined with standard chemotherapy led to a better overall survival (OS) and PFS in NSCLC patients, relative to chemotherapy monotherapy [53, 54].”
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“Moreover, ORR, median PFS, and median DOR reported for the two treatment arms were consistent with those reported in the KEYNOTE-189 and KEYNOTE-407 trials of pembrolizumab i.v.þ chemotherapy for the treatment of mNSCLC.22,23”
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- Authors
- Gandhi, L., Rodríguez-Abreu, D., Gadgeel, S., Esteban, E., Felip, E., De Angelis, F., Domine, M., Clingan, P., Hochmair, M. J., Powell, S. F., Cheng, S. Y.-S., Bischoff, H. G., Peled, N., Grossi, F., Jennens, R. R., Reck, M., Hui, R., Garon, E. B., Boyer, M., Rubio-Viqueira, B., Novello, S., Kurata, T., Gray, J. E., Vida, J., Wei, Z., Yang, J., Raftopoulos, H., Pietanza, M. C., & Garassino, M. C.
- Affiliations
- Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (ES)
- From NYU Perlmutter Cancer Center, New York (L.G.); Complejo Hospitalario Universitario Insular Materno-Infantil de Gran Canaria, Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (D.R.-A.), Hospital Universitario Central de Asturias, Oviedo (E.E.), Vall d’Hebron University, Vall d’Hebron Institute of Oncology, Barcelona (E.F.), and Fundación Jiménez Díaz (M.D.) and Hospital Universitario Quirón Madrid (B.R.-V.), Madrid — all in Spain; Karmanos Cancer Institute, Detroit (S.G.);...
- ORCID
- Gandhi, Leena
- Gadgeel, Shirish
- Esteban, Emilio
- Felip, Enriqueta
- Clingan, Philip
- Hochmair, Maximilian J.
- Powell, Steven F.
- Bischoff, Helge G.
- Peled, Nir
- Grossi, Francesco
- Jennens, Ross R.
- Reck, Martin
- Hui, Rina
- Garon, Edward B.
- Boyer, Michael
- Novello, Silvia
- Kurata, Takayasu
- Gray, Jhanelle E.
- Wei, Ziwen
- Yang, Jing
- Pietanza, M. Catherine
- Garassino, Marina C.
- Venue
- New England Journal of Medicine
- Publisher
- Massachusetts Medical Society
- Published
- 2018-05-31
- Volume
- 378
- Issue
- 22
- Pages
- 2078-2092
- ISSN
- 0028-4793 (ISSN-L)
- 1533-4406
- OpenAlex
- W2796582438
- Cited by
- 6,607
- References
- 31
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- 2026: 484 · 2025: 646 · 2024: 777 · 2023: 824 · 2022: 901 · 2021: 1039 · 2020: 964 · 2019: 677 · 2018: 284
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- 559.94
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- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
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- Funders
- Merck
- Topics
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine › Lung Cancer Treatments and Mutations
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Oncology › Cancer Immunotherapy and Biomarkers
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine › Lung Cancer Diagnosis and Treatment
- Keywords
- pembrolizumab, metastatic non-small cell lung cancer, PD-L1, pemetrexed, platinum-based chemotherapy, immune checkpoint inhibitors, first-line therapy, overall survival, progression-free survival, PD-L1 expression, maintenance therapy, treatment safety, immune-related adverse events, pneumonitis, diarrhea, rash, hyperphosphatemia
- MeSH terms
- Antineoplastic Agents, Immunological, Adult, Aged, Aged, 80 and over, Antineoplastic Combined Chemotherapy Protocols, Carcinoma, Non-Small-Cell Lung, Double-Blind Method, Female, Follow-Up Studies, Humans, Lung Neoplasms, Male, Middle Aged, Disease-Free Survival, Kaplan-Meier Estimate, Antibodies, Monoclonal, Humanized
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