BEIJING (Reuters) - China's National Drug Administration has granted Merck's KEYTRUDA therapy a licence for first-line treatment of certain stomach cancer patients in the country.
Merck is known as MSD outside the United States and Canada.
(Reporting by Beijing newsroom; Editing by David Goodman)
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