Anyone taking Keytruda? Tolerance, side effects?

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  • JoE777
    JoE777 Member Posts: 628
    edited September 2018

    I thought this was used to treat. Metastatic lung cancer

  • Rita1276
    Rita1276 Member Posts: 2
    edited September 2018

    yes that is what it is approved for, but is now being recommended for metastatic breast cancer

  • pajim
    pajim Member Posts: 2,785
    edited September 2018

    It's in clinical trials for breast cancer.

    Rita, there are a few women on the Stage IV board who are getting it as part of a clinical trial. They're on the Halaven thread.

    So far the best results have been in women with triple negative cancer so it can be hard to get it if you're not. There's talk about approval of an immunotherapy (not Keytruda) in triple negative breast cancer but the data aren't out yet. They're supposed to come out at the next big oncology meeting -- next month.

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