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    • November 17, 2013 at 11:05 pm
    Mat
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      There is a melanoma conference in Philadelphia this week.  I believe that there will be an annoucements from Merck an GSK.  More on Merck below.

       

      WHITEHOUSE STATION, N.J., Nov 15, 2013 (BUSINESS WIRE) — Merck MRK +0.52% , known as MSD outside the United States and Canada, will present additional data from patients with advanced melanoma from the Phase IB trial of MK-3475 on Monday, Nov. 18 at the 10th International Congress of the Society for Melanoma Research in Philadelphia. MK-3475 is Merck's investigational anti-PD-1 immunotherapy. The additional data are from PN001, an ongoing multi-center, single-arm open-label study evaluating MK-3475 monotherapy in more than 1,000 patients with diverse late-stage cancers (metastatic carcinoma), predominantly lung and melanoma. The data to be presented are for patients in the melanoma cohort.

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