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KEYNOTE-042
Study of Pembrolizumab (MK-3475) Versus Platinum-Based Chemotherapy for Participants With Programmed Cell Death-Ligand 1 (PD-L1)-Positive Advanced or Metastatic Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer (MK-3475-042/KEYNOTE-042)
- NCT02220894 ↗
- Completed
- Merck Sharp & Dohme LLC
- Deep
We haven't built an HCP commentary report on KEYNOTE-042 (pembrolizumab in first-line PD-L1-positive advanced or metastatic non-small-cell lung cancer) yet. This page shows the registry record and the public commentary we found that names the trial. A report reads that commentary and sets out what clinicians said about the trial, each point linked to its source. How reports are made.
Indexed commentary on KEYNOTE-042 so far
Podcasts, YouTube videos and X posts we have indexed that name the trial. It is where a report starts, not where it ends: the build searches for more, so finished reports usually cover more than this.
| Channel | Indexed | |
|---|---|---|
| X threads | 30 | |
| Podcasts | 19 | |
| YouTube | 15 |
The trial
ClinicalTrials.gov- Official title
- A Randomized, Open Label, Phase III Study of Overall Survival Comparing Pembrolizumab (MK-3475) Versus Platinum Based Chemotherapy in Treatment Naïve Subjects With PD-L1 Positive Advanced or Metastatic Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer (Keynote 042)
- Phase
- Phase 3
- Status
- Completed
- Conditions
- Non-small Cell Lung Cancer
- Interventions
- pembrolizumab; carboplatin; paclitaxel; pemetrexed
- Arms
- Pembrolizumab · Experimental
- SOC Treatment · Active comparator
- Enrollment
- 1,274
- Primary outcomes
- Overall Survival (OS) in Participants With a Tumor Proportion Score (TPS) of ≥50%
- Overall Survival (OS) in Participants With a Tumor Proportion Score (TPS) of ≥20%
- Overall Survival (OS) in Participants With a Tumor Proportion Score (TPS) of ≥1%
- Sponsor
- Merck Sharp & Dohme LLC
- Start
- Oct 30, 2014
- Primary completion
- Sep 4, 2018
- Results posted
- Yes
- Registry record
- NCT02220894 · updated Jun 25, 2026
Publications
linked from the registry- de Castro G Jr, Kudaba I, Wu YL, Lopes G, Kowalski DM, Turna HZ, Caglevic C, Zhang L, Karaszewska B, Laktionov KK, Srimuninnimit V, Bondarenko I, Kubota K, Mukherjee R, Lin J, Souza F, Mok TSK, Cho BC. Five-Year Outcomes With Pembrolizumab Versus Chemotherapy as First-Line Therapy in Patients With Non-Small-Cell Lung Cancer and Programmed Death Ligand-1 Tumor Proportion Score >/= 1% in the KEYNOTE-042 Study. J Clin Oncol. 2023 Apr 10;41(11):1986-1991. doi: 10.1200/JCO.21.02885. Epub 2022 Oct 28. PubMed 36306479
- Halmos B, Burke T, Kalyvas C, Insinga R, Vandormael K, Frederickson A, Piperdi B. Indirect comparison of pembrolizumab monotherapy versus nivolumab + ipilimumab in first-line metastatic lung cancer. Immunotherapy. 2022 Apr;14(5):295-307. doi: 10.2217/imt-2021-0273. Epub 2022 Jan 25. PubMed 35073727
- Wu YL, Zhang L, Fan Y, Zhou J, Zhang L, Zhou Q, Li W, Hu C, Chen G, Zhang X, Zhou C, Dang T, Sadowski S, Kush DA, Zhou Y, Li B, Mok T. Randomized clinical trial of pembrolizumab vs chemotherapy for previously untreated Chinese patients with PD-L1-positive locally advanced or metastatic non-small-cell lung cancer: KEYNOTE-042 China Study. Int J Cancer. 2021 May 1;148(9):2313-2320. doi: 10.1002/ijc.33399. Epub 2020 Dec 9. PubMed 33231285
- Weng X, Luo S, Lin S, Zhong L, Li M, Xin R, Huang P, Xu X. Cost-Utility Analysis of Pembrolizumab Versus Chemotherapy as First-Line Treatment for Metastatic Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer With Different PD-L1 Expression Levels. Oncol Res. 2020 Mar 27;28(2):117-125. doi: 10.3727/096504019X15707883083132. Epub 2019 Oct 14. PubMed 31610828
- Mok TSK, Wu YL, Kudaba I, Kowalski DM, Cho BC, Turna HZ, Castro G Jr, Srimuninnimit V, Laktionov KK, Bondarenko I, Kubota K, Lubiniecki GM, Zhang J, Kush D, Lopes G; KEYNOTE-042 Investigators. Pembrolizumab versus chemotherapy for previously untreated, PD-L1-expressing, locally advanced or metastatic non-small-cell lung cancer (KEYNOTE-042): a randomised, open-label, controlled, phase 3 trial. Lancet. 2019 May 4;393(10183):1819-1830. doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(18)32409-7. Epub 2019 Apr 4. PubMed 30955977