%0 Journal Article %A Luke, Jason J %A Ascierto, Paolo A %A Khattak, Muhammad A %A Rutkowski, Piotr %A Del Vecchio, Michele %A Spagnolo, Francesco %A Mackiewicz, Jacek %A Merino, Luis de la Cruz %A Chiarion-Sileni, Vanna %A Kirkwood, John M %A Robert, Caroline %A Schadendorf, Dirk %A de Galitiis, Federica %A Carlino, Matteo S %A Dummer, Reinhard %A Mohr, Peter %A Odeleye-Ajakaye, Amos %A Fukunaga-Kalabis, Mizuho %A Krepler, Clemens %A Eggermont, Alexander M M %A Long, Georgina V %T Pembrolizumab versus placebo as adjuvant therapy in resected stage IIB or IIC melanoma: Long-term follow-up, crossover, and rechallenge with pembrolizumab in the phase III KEYNOTE-716 study. %J European journal of cancer %V 220 %@ 0959-8049 %C Amsterdam [u.a.] %I Elsevier %M DKFZ-2025-00757 %P 115381 %D 2025 %X Adjuvant pembrolizumab prolonged recurrence-free survival (RFS) and distant metastasis-free survival (DMFS) in patients with resected stage IIB/IIC melanoma in KEYNOTE-716. Results of a post hoc 4-year analysis are reported, including progression/recurrence-free survival 2 (PRFS2).Patients were randomly assigned 1:1 to pembrolizumab 200 mg or placebo intravenously every 3 weeks (part 1). RFS was the primary end point; DMFS was secondary. Patients with recurrence following placebo or 17 cycles of pembrolizumab could cross over to or be rechallenged with pembrolizumab (part 2).Median follow-up (n = 976) was 52.8 months (range, 39.4-64.8). RFS (HR, 0.62 [95 %K Adjuvant therapy (Other) %K Immune checkpoint inhibitors (Other) %K Melanoma (Other) %K Pembrolizumab (Other) %K Programmed cell death protein 1 (Other) %F PUB:(DE-HGF)16 %9 Journal Article %$ pmid:40198940 %R 10.1016/j.ejca.2025.115381 %U https://inrepo02.dkfz.de/record/300307