Foundation Medicine's liquid biopsy test will be used in the third stage of SCRUM-Japan, which focuses on advanced cancer patientsin Japan and other Asian countries.
The final national coverage decision stipulates that NGS germline tests for assessing hereditary breast and ovarian cancer risk must have FDA's blessing.
Myriad filed an sPMA for myChoice CDx despite GSK's confidence that Zejula will be approved in newly diagnosed ovarian cancer regardless of biomarker status.
AstraZeneca and Merck also announced they have filed for approval of Lynparza in patients who have mutations in more than a dozen homologous recombination repair genes.
Increasing understanding of complex tumor biology is reshaping clinical trials in the age of precision medicine, though some view these changes with concern.
Drugmakers talked about precision oncology acquisitions, and a genetic testing firm discussed the use of artificial intelligence in predicting treatment response.
Among the firms presenting, drugmakers, speciality biotechs, and genetic testing firms provided an update on their precision oncology development programs.
