Pembrolizumab Regimen

**Semantic type:** Therapeutic or Preventive Procedure

**Definition:** A regimen consisting of pembrolizumab that may be used in the treatment of anal, anaplastic, Merkel cell, and thymic carcinomas; ampullary, appendiceal, pancreatic, and small bowel adenocarcinomas; alveolar soft part sarcoma; angiosarcoma, soft tissue sarcoma, uterine sarcoma, and Kaposi sarcoma; bladder, breast, esophageal and esophagogastric junction, kidney, occult primary, gastric, bone, colorectal, cervical, non-small cell lung, small cell lung, penile, testicular, prostate, hepatobiliary, endometrial, vaginal, vulvar, ovarian, fallopian tube and primary peritoneal cancers; head and neck cancer including cancer of the nasopharynx; gestational trophoblastic neoplasia; chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL); small lymphocytic lymphoma (SLL); diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL); Hodgkin lymphoma; T-cell lymphomas; mycosis fungoides/Sezary syndrome; follicular, medullary, papillary and Hurthle cell thyroid carcinomas; malignant germ cell tumors; adrenal gland and well-differentiated grade 3 neuroendocrine tumors (NETs); extrapulmonary poorly differentiated neuroendocrine carcinoma, large or small cell carcinoma, and mixed neuroendocrine-non-neuroendocrine neoplasm; squamous cell skin cancer; and cutaneous and uveal melanoma.

**Synonyms:** - Keytruda Regimen - Pembrolizumab monotherapy