- Lung cancer causes more than 1.7 million deaths worldwide each year, with NSCLC accounting for about 85 percent of all cases1
- The cobas EGFR Mutation Test v2 is FDA approved as a companion diagnostic for the detection of EGFR mutations in NSCLC for both tissue and plasma samples, with results available in less than eight hours2
- The new FDA approval allows the test to be used as a companion diagnostic for a broad group of EGFR TKI therapies
Roche (SIX: RO, ROG; OTCQX: RHHBY) today announced U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval of expanded claims for the cobas® EGFR Mutation Test v2 as a companion diagnostic (CDx) for a broader group of therapies in the treatment of non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). This claim expansion allows the test to be used as a CDx for all five currently FDA-approved epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) tyrosine kinase inhibitor (TKI) therapies targeting EGFR mutations L858R and Exon 19 Deletions in accordance with the approved therapeutic product labelling. The group claim will also enable the test to be used as a CDx for any future approved EGFR TKI therapies targeting the same mutations, without the need to conduct individual clinical studies with the test for each new therapy.
Clinicians can now have greater confidence in the robustness, reliability and proven clinical utility of the cobas EGFR Mutation Test v2 when evaluating lung cancer patients who may benefit from targeted EGFR TKI therapies,
said Neil Gunn, Head of Roche Sequencing Solutions.