How Cancer Drug Keytruda ( Pembrolizumab) Treats Melanoma

FDA approved cancer drug Keytruda (pembrolizumab) is used to treat advanced melanoma skin cancer. In this video, Dr. Stephen Lemon talks about how this immunotherapy treatment works, as well as what types of side effects it may cause patients.
Keytruda was developed by Merck. Dr. Lemon is a medical oncologist who is not affiliated with Merck.

[@kathyskaggs501]

12:18. My husband is eleven years out from his stage 4 melanoma diagnosis. He is currently cancer free. Keytruda cured him. Zelboraf and Yervoy did not work. He had two golf ball size tumors in his left frontal lobe that were surgically removed and one more spot above the temporal area that was radiated. There has been some permanent mental deficits but most people aren’t able to tell.

[@godschild3640]

I was sick for many years and didn’t go to the doctor and I finally went with stage four lung cancer the second you get sleepy and the second you get a cough and the second you have pneumonia go to the hospital it’s probably lung cancer

[@achievegoal5189]

Can we take keytruda medicine if the PD-L1(22C3) by immunohistochemistry shows no staining in tumor cells and only in scanty lymphocytes with TPS score of 0% and CPS score of less than 1%.

[@godschild3640]

I HAVE STAGE 4 NON SMALL CELL LUNG CANCER AND KETRUDA is it attacking my Adidas glads in my upper kidneys? it did attack the cancer but it made me very sick and it made my bones hurt and it was really bad and they did not give me any pain medicine

[@nancyreyesreyes334]

My husband took keytruda one time, it was the worse thing he could have done. He lost so much weight and his mind is shot, he can bearly walk dr are blamming the oxycodone for pain and the 2 mg of valium, he was still working when he went the next day he wasnt able to get out of bed, I had to take him to the ER twice, this is Poison Has made my husband worse, If you're thinking of taking it I would think twice. I regret him going alone because I would have stopped him. His doctor had told me it was a trial medication, And now they're saying that it was passed by the fda. I am really angry at this point. Hes 4 stage, I still dont know hiw long he has , so now not having life insurance ill loose my husband my house, because I cant work Im disable. The only thing holding me up is God, his family or mine have plenty of money and hasnt help only his father whos 100 years old.

[@suryamethala]

Type 1Dm is a side effect