EMA adopts positive opinion for pembrolizumab with…

The Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP) of the European Medicines Agency (EMA) has adopted a positive opinion recommending approval of pembrolizumab, Merck’s anti-PD-1 therapy, in combination with pemetrexed and platinum chemotherapy (cisplatin or carboplatin) for the first-line treatment of metastatic nonsquamous non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) in adults whose tumors have no EGFR or