Pembrolizumab with or without chemotherapy in recurrent or metastatic head and neck squamous cell carcinoma: Opdated results of the phase III keynote-048 study

• Main Authors: Harrington, Kevin J., Burtness, Barbara, Greil, Richard, Soulieres, Denis, Tahara, Makoto, de Castro Jr, Gilberto, Psyrri, Amanda, Brana, Irene, Baste, Neus, Neupane, Prakash, Bratland, Ase, Fuereder, Thorsten, Hughes, Brett G. M., Mesia, Ricard, Ngamphaiboon, Nuttapong, Rordorf, Tamara, Wan Ishak, Wan Zamaniah, Lin, Jianxin, Gumuscu, Burak, Swaby, Ramona F., Rischin, Danny
• Format: Article
• Published: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins 2023
• Subjects: R Medicine (General); RC0254 Neoplasms. Tumors. Oncology (including Cancer)
• Online Access: http://eprints.um.edu.my/38695/

PURPOSEPembrolizumab and pembrolizumab-chemotherapy demonstrated efficacy in recurrent/metastatic head and neck squamous cell carcinoma in KEYNOTE-048. Post hoc analysis of long-term efficacy and progression-free survival on next-line therapy (PFS2) is presented.METHODSPatients were randomly assigne...