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FDA Priority Review of MSD’s sBLA for Keytruda®+ Chemo for Malignant Pleural Mesothelioma

May 29, 2024

On 29 May 2024, MSD announced that the FDA accepted for priority review its sBLA for Keytruda® (pembrolizumab) plus chemotherapy as first line treatment for unresectable advanced or metastatic malignant pleural mesothelioma.  The target action date for the FDA decision is 25 September 2024. 

This comes weeks after Amgen announced initiation of a Phase 3 study to evaluate its pembrolizumab biosimilar for advanced or metastatic no-squamous non-small cell lung cancer.