Competition among drugs vying for a leading position in the future advanced renal cell carcinoma market just got a little tougher, with Merck & Co. Inc. releasing more top-line data from the KEYNOTE-426 study showing a combination of its PD-1 inhibitor, Keytruda (pembrolizumab), with Pfizer Inc.'s tyrosine kinase inhibitor, Inlyta (axitinib), improved overall survival, PFS and ORR in the first-line treatment of condition.
The data were released Feb. 11, 2019, the same day Pfizer and EMD Serono (Merck KGAA) announced that their...