Merck & Co. Release: Data For KEYTRUDA (pembrolizumab) In A Range Of Gastrointestinal Cancers To Be Presented At 2016 Gastrointestinal Cancers Symposium

KENILWORTH, N.J.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Merck (NYSE: MRK), known as MSD outside the United States and Canada, announced today that new and updated findings investigating the use of KEYTRUDA® (pembrolizumab), the company’s anti-PD-1 therapy, in multiple gastrointestinal cancers will be presented at this year’s Gastrointestinal (GI) Cancers Symposium in San Francisco, Jan. 21 – 23. Updates on pembrolizumab include data on advanced esophageal carcinoma and new preliminary Phase 2 safety data in gastric cancer.