The combination of the anti-PD-1 antibody pembrolizumab and the multikinase inhibitor lenvatinib provides objective response rates in many patients with advanced gastric cancer, according to results from an early single-arm trial.
Lenvatinib monotherapy was associated with durably stable disease in a phase-1 study of patients with solid tumors, and the combination of lenvatinib plus pembrolizumab has shown promising antitumor activity with manageable safety profiles for several malignancies.
Lenvatinib is a multikinase inhibitor of VEGFR1, VEGFR2, and VEGFR3, and other receptor tyrosine kinases. Pembrolizumab, an antibody targeting PD-1, has also moderate efficacy in biomarker-unselected endometrial cancer.
Source: Medscape