July 1, 2021—The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved FoundationOne CDx for use as a companion diagnostic for brigatinib, which the FDA had previously approved for treatment of […] Read more

June 15, 2021—Canada’s medical regulatory agency approved the use of selpercatinib monotherapy for treatment of patients with metastatic RET fusion–positive NSCLC. Health Canada based its conditional approval on the LIBRETTO-001 […] Read more

On May 28, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) granted accelerated approval of sotorasib for patients with KRAS G12C-mutated NSCLC who have received at least one prior line of […] Read more

February 3, 2021—Tepotinib was approved for treatment of patients with metastatic NSCLC who harbor MET exon 14 skipping alterations. Approval was based on data from the VISION trial (NCT02864992). VISION, […] Read more

December 18, 2020—The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved osimertinib as post-resection adjuvant therapy for patients with NSCLC and EGFR exon 19 deletions or exon 21 L858R mutations, as […] Read more

October 2, 2020—As part of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) Project Orbis, the FDA approved combination nivolumab and ipilimumab for treatment-naive patients with unresectable malignant plueral mesothelioma (MPM). […] Read more

The US National Cancer Institute (NCI), a division of the US National institutes of Health (NIH), is partnering with Cancer Research UK, the world’s largest independent cancer research charity, to […] Read more

August 2020 was a groundbreaking month for liquid biopsy technology, with two assays approved by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) as companion diagnostics just weeks apart. The Guardant360 CDx assay, approved August 7, was […] Read more