Overall Survival Improves With Adjuvant Pembrolizumab in RCC

A third prespecified interim analysis of the KEYNOTE-564 trial has determined that adjuvant pembrolizumab after surgery was associated with a significant and clinically meaningful improvement in overall survival, as compared with placebo, among participants with clear-cell renal-cell carcinoma at increased risk for recurrence after surgery.

Targeted Therapies for CLL Widely Used at VA; Prolonged Survival

U.S. military veterans with chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) routinely received therapies in line with current evidence-based treatment practices over the past two decades, and those who were treated with targeted therapies had longer overall survival, according to a national VA study with more than 20 years of clinical data.