	Kei Muro, MD, of the Aichi Cancer Center Hospital in Nagoya, Japan, discusses updated findings from the KEYNOTE-012 study, which looked at pembrolizumab for the treatment of several types of cancer.

	Muro recently presented on the gastric cancer cohort of KEYNOTE-012, which included 39 patients whose tumors expressed PD-L1. The study included 19 Asian and 22 non-Asian patients.

	The objective response rate (ORR) was 22.2% and the toxicity profile was very manageable. Median progression-free survival (PFS) was 1.9 months and at 6 months, the PFS rate was 24%, and the overall survival (OS) rate was 69%.  

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Kei Muro, MD, of the Aichi Cancer Center Hospital in Nagoya, Japan, discusses updated findings from the KEYNOTE-012 study, which looked at pembrolizumab for the treatment if several types of cancer.

Dr. Muro on Pembrolizumab for Gastric Cancer