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Updated · Fox News · Sep 14
Moderna, Merck Post Positive Phase 3 Melanoma Data in 1,137-Patient AI-Personalized Therapy Trial
Updated
Updated · Fox News · Sep 14

Moderna, Merck Post Positive Phase 3 Melanoma Data in 1,137-Patient AI-Personalized Therapy Trial

3 articles · Updated · Fox News · Sep 14

Summary

  • Moderna and Merck said their Phase 3 trial in 1,137 patients with surgically removed high-risk melanoma met its main recurrence-free survival goal and a key distant metastasis-free survival endpoint.
  • The treatment, intismeran autogene (V940 or mRNA-4157), is built from each patient's tumor mutations, with algorithms selecting targets for an mRNA therapy that can encode up to 34 neoantigens and is given with Keytruda.
  • The companies called it the first positive Phase 3 readout for an individualized neoantigen therapy and for an mRNA-based cancer therapy, but only topline results have been released and the study is still tracking overall survival.
  • Earlier Phase 2b data in a smaller group showed the combination cut recurrence or death risk by 49% and distant metastasis or death by 59% versus Keytruda alone, while the therapy remains investigational and not FDA-approved.

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