Dr Jason Luke talks to ecancer for the ESMO 2021 meeting about the overall survival results from the phase III KEYNOTE-716 study.

This study looked at the use of pembrolizumab versus placebo after complete resection of high-risk stage II melanoma.

Dr Luke explains that this was an international randomised placebo-controlled double-blind study where patients were split 1-1 between pembrolizumab and placebo.

He reports that patients who received pembrolizumab experienced a 35% reduction in the risk of recurrence and also the number of distant metastasis recurrences.

Read more about this study here.

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