Dr. Farago on the FDA Approval of Pembrolizumab for Lower PD-1 Cutoff NSCLC

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Anna F. Farago, MD, PhD, assistant professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School, discusses the FDA approval of single-agent pembrolizumab for the frontline treatment of patients with stage III non–small cell lung cancer, who are ineligible for surgery or definitive chemoradiation, or metastatic NSCLC, with a PD-L1 expression (tumor proportion score) level of ≥1% and do not harbor EGFR or ALK aberrations.

Anna F. Farago, MD, PhD, assistant professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School, discusses the FDA approval of single-agent pembrolizumab for the frontline treatment of patients with stage III non—small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), who are ineligible for surgery or definitive chemoradiation, or metastatic NSCLC, with a PD-L1 expression (tumor proportion score) level of ≥1% and do not harbor EGFR or ALK aberrations.

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