• Vicky Makker, Nicoletta Colombo, Antonio Casado Herráez, Alessandro D Santin, Emeline Colomba, David S Miller, Keiichi Fujiwara, Sandro Pignata, Sally Baron-Hay, Isabelle Ray-Coquard, Ronnie Shapira-Frommer, Kimio Ushijima, Jun Sakata, Kan Yonemori, Yong Man Kim, Eva M Guerra, Ulus A Sanli, Mary M McCormack, Alan D Smith, Stephen Keefe, Steven Bird, Lea Dutta, Robert J Orlowski, Domenica Lorusso, and Study 309–KEYNOTE-775 Investigators.
• From the Department of Medicine, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, Weill Cornell Medical Center, New York (V.M.); the European Institute of Oncology IRCCS, University of Milan-Bicocca, Milan (N.C.), Istituto Nazionale Tumori IRCCS-Fondazione G. Pascale, Naples (S.P.), and Fondazione Policlinico Universitario Agostino Gemelli IRCCS and Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, Rome (D.L.) - all in Italy; San Carlos University Teaching Hospital (A.C.H.) and Hospital Universitario Ramón y Cajal (E.M.G.) - both in Madrid; Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT (A.D. Santin); Gustave Roussy Cancerology Institute, Groupe d'Investigateurs Nationaux pour l'Étude des Cancers Ovariens (GINECO), Villejuif (E.C.), and Centre Léon-Bérard, University Claude Bernard, GINECO, Lyon (I.R.-C.) - both in France; the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas (D.S.M.); Saitama Medical University International Medical Center, Hidaka (K.F.), Kurume University School of Medicine, Kurume (K.U.), Aichi Cancer Center Hospital, Nagoya (J.S.), and National Cancer Center Hospital-Kokuritsu Gan Kenkyu Center Chuo Byoin, Tokyo (K.Y.) - all in Japan; Royal North Shore Hospital, St. Leonards, NSW, Australia (S.B.-H.); Sheba Medical Center, Ramat Gan, Israel (R.S.-F.); Asan Medical Center, University of Ulsan, Seoul, South Korea (Y.-M.K.); Ege University, Izmir, Turkey (U.A.S.); University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, London (M.M.M.), and Eisai, Hatfield (A.D. Smith) - both in the United Kingdom; and Merck, Kenilworth (S.K., S.B., R.J.O.), and Eisai, Woodcliff Lake (L.D.) - both in New Jersey.
• N. Engl. J. Med. 2022 Feb 3; 386 (5): 437-448.

BackgroundStandard therapy for advanced endometrial cancer after failure of platinum-based chemotherapy remains unclear.MethodsIn this phase 3 trial, we randomly assigned, in a 1:1 ratio, patients with advanced endometrial cancer who had previously received at least one platinum-based chemotherapy regimen to receive either lenvatinib (20 mg, administered orally once daily) plus pembrolizumab (200 mg, administered intravenously every 3 weeks) or chemotherapy of the treating physician's choice (doxorubicin at 60 mg per square meter of body-surface area, administered intravenously every 3 weeks, or paclitaxel at 80 mg per square meter, administered intravenously weekly [with a cycle of 3 weeks on and 1 week off]). The two primary end points were progression-free survival as assessed on blinded independent central review according to the Response Evaluation Criteria in Solid Tumors, version 1.1, and overall survival. The end points were evaluated in patients with mismatch repair-proficient (pMMR) disease and in all patients. Safety was also assessed.ResultsA total of 827 patients (697 with pMMR disease and 130 with mismatch repair-deficient disease) were randomly assigned to receive lenvatinib plus pembrolizumab (411 patients) or chemotherapy (416 patients). The median progression-free survival was longer with lenvatinib plus pembrolizumab than with chemotherapy (pMMR population: 6.6 vs. 3.8 months; hazard ratio for progression or death, 0.60; 95% confidence interval [CI], 0.50 to 0.72; P<0.001; overall: 7.2 vs. 3.8 months; hazard ratio, 0.56; 95% CI, 0.47 to 0.66; P<0.001). The median overall survival was longer with lenvatinib plus pembrolizumab than with chemotherapy (pMMR population: 17.4 vs. 12.0 months; hazard ratio for death, 0.68; 95% CI, 0.56 to 0.84; P<0.001; overall: 18.3 vs. 11.4 months; hazard ratio, 0.62; 95% CI, 0.51 to 0.75; P<0.001). Adverse events of grade 3 or higher occurred in 88.9% of the patients who received lenvatinib plus pembrolizumab and in 72.7% of those who received chemotherapy.ConclusionsLenvatinib plus pembrolizumab led to significantly longer progression-free survival and overall survival than chemotherapy among patients with advanced endometrial cancer. (Funded by Eisai and Merck Sharp and Dohme [a subsidiary of Merck]; Study 309-KEYNOTE-775 ClinicalTrials.gov number, NCT03517449.).Copyright © 2022 Massachusetts Medical Society.

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