ProjectKEYNOTE 054 – Adjuvant immunotherapy with anti-PD-1 monoclonal antibody Pembrolizumab (MK-3475) versus placebo…

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Acronym:
KEYNOTE 054
Title:
Adjuvant immunotherapy with anti-PD-1 monoclonal antibody Pembrolizumab (MK-3475) versus placebo after complete resection of high-risk Stage III melanoma: A randomized, double-blind Phase 3 trial of the EORTC Melanoma Group.
Duration:
01/01/2016 to 31/12/2020
Abstract / short description:
To prospectively assess whether post-operative adjuvant therapy with pembrolizumab improves recurrence-free survival (RFS) as compared to placebo in high-risk patients with complete resection of Stage IIIA (> 1 mm metastasis), IIIB and IIIC melanoma.
To prospectively assess whether in the subgroup of patients with PD-L1-positive tumor expression, pembrolizumab improves recurrence-free survival as compared to placebo.
Keywords:
melanoma
Melanom

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Managers

Department of Dermatology
Hospitals and clinical institutes, Faculty of Medicine

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Faculty of Medicine
University of Tübingen
Department of Dermatology
Hospitals and clinical institutes, Faculty of Medicine
Department of Dermatology
Hospitals and clinical institutes, Faculty of Medicine

Local organizational units

Department of Dermatology
Hospitals and clinical institutes
Faculty of Medicine

Funders

Princeton, New Jersey, United States
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