MRK—As “failures” go, OS HR=0.80—[95% CI 0.64-0.98]—in KEYNOTE-604 is not such a bad result.
Meeting the PFS endpoint in KEYNOTE-604 (with HR=0.75) and being approved in third-line SCLC (#msg-149450826) ought to allow Keytruda to garner some meaningful business in SCLC, despite Tecentriq’s nominally better outcome in the first-line setting.
“The efficient-market hypothesis may be the foremost piece of B.S. ever promulgated in any area of human knowledge!”