In 2009, Carl Ola Landgren noticed that nearly all of his multiple myeloma patients were responding to the state-of-the-art drugs he was giving them at the NCI clinical center in Building 10 in Bethesda.
As oncology enters a new era of precision medicine, the Food and Drug Administration’s evolving biomarker strategy aims to ensure that life-saving therapies are tailored to individual patient needs, fostering safer and more effective treatments. Historically, therapies were approved with broad indications based on overall efficacy, even when outcomes for biomarker-positive and -negative patients were...
