Moderna mRNA cancer treatment breakthough Significant progress in the application of mRNA technology to treat melanoma, with Moderna and MSD announcing follow-up data from the phase 2B trial of their mRNA-based individualised neoantigen therapy delivered in combination with KEYTRUDA Over three years, melanoma patients who received the mRNA treatment in combination with KEYTRUDA saw the risk of recurrence or death cut by 49% and metastasis cut by 62% compared to patients who received only KEYTRUDA Moderna and MSD are now initiating Phase 3 studies for patients with both high-risk melanoma and small-cell lung cancer, with plans to rapidly expand the treatment to other tumour types #melanoma #cancertherapy #mrna #mrnavaccines
Moderna and Merck today announced follow-up data from the Phase 2b randomized KEYNOTE-942/mRNA-4157-P201 study, a clinical trial evaluating mRNA-4157 (V940), an investigational individualized neoantigen therapy (INT), in combination with KEYTRUDA, Merck's anti-PD-1 therapy, in patients with resected high-risk #melanoma (stage III/IV) following complete resection. The companies have initiated Phase 3 studies in the adjuvant setting in patients with high-risk melanoma and non-small cell lung #cancer and plan to rapidly expand to additional tumor types. Learn more: https://lnkd.in/dW4eZiQi