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Thierry André, MD, on Pembrolizumab vs Chemotherapy in MSI-High Colorectal Cancer

2021 ASCO Annual Meeting

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Thierry André, MD, of Hôpital Saint-Antoine, discusses final overall survival data for the phase III KEYNOTE-177 study, which confirmed pembrolizumab as a new standard of care for first-line treatment of patients with microsatellite instability–high/mismatch repair–deficient metastatic colorectal cancer (Abstract 3500).



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