Novocure Enrolls First Patient in KEYNOTE-B36, a Pilot Study of Tumor Treating Fields Together with KEYTRUDA® for Patients with First-Line Stage III Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer

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Jun 21, 2022

Novocure (NASDAQ: NVCR) today announced the first patient has been enrolled in its phase 2 pilot KEYNOTE-B36 study, conducted in collaboration with MSD, a tradename of Merck & Co., Inc., Rahway, NJ, USA. KEYNOTE-B36 is designed to evaluate the safety and effectiveness of Tumor Treating Fields (TTFields) together with KEYTRUDA® (pembrolizumab), MSD’s anti-PD-1 therapy, for the first-line treatment of locally advanced or metastatic intrathoracic non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) that expresses PD-L1.