| Literature DB >> 30735435 |
Ken Kato1, Manish A Shah2, Peter Enzinger3, Jaafar Bennouna4, Lin Shen5, Antoine Adenis6, Jong-Mu Sun7, Byoung Chul Cho8, Mustafa Özgüroğlu9, Takashi Kojima10, Vladimir Kostorov11, Cinta Hierro12, Ying Zhu13, Lee Anne McLean13, Sukrut Shah13, Toshihiko Doi10.
Abstract
BACKGROUND: Treatment options for patients with advanced esophageal or esophagogastric junction (EGJ) cancer are limited. Current guidelines for first-line treatment of advanced esophageal or EGJ cancer recommend chemotherapy containing a platinum and a fluoropyrimidine agent. Pembrolizumab demonstrated antitumor activity in previously treated patients with advanced esophageal cancer and in patients with gastroesophageal junction cancer. AIM: To describe the design and rationale for the randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled Phase III KEYNOTE-590 study, which will be conducted to investigate pembrolizumab in combination with chemotherapy as first-line treatment in patients with advanced esophageal or EGJ cancer. Clinical trial registry & ID: ClinicalTrials.gov : NCT03189719.Entities:
Keywords: PD-1; PD-L1; chemotherapy; esophageal cancer; esophagogastric junction cancer; gastrointestinal/esophageal; immunotherapy; pembrolizumab; squamous cell carcinoma of the esophagus
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Year: 2019 PMID: 30735435 DOI: 10.2217/fon-2018-0609
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Future Oncol ISSN: 1479-6694 Impact factor: 3.404