The Canadian company said its technology platform allows it to match patients to cancer treatments more efficiently and to identify novel patient populations.
While the oncology field moves toward NGS panel testing, the drugmaker has launched a program subsidizing single-gene testing for advanced melanoma patients.
An international team saw an overall survival benefit when using BRAF, MEK, and EGFR inhibitors together in previously treated, BRAF-mutated metastatic colorectal cancer patients.
Combined DNA/RNA-seq efforts in various settings could lead to new ways of treating kids with drugs meant for adults or to the development of new therapies.
In a small study, melanoma patients with BRAF V600K mutations responded better to immunotherapy while those with V600E mutations had a better response to targeted therapy.
The researchers aim to offer the half-hour diagnostic assay for use during neurosurgery to help clinicians pursue the best treatment for patients with gliomas.
