FDA approved Xalkori (crizotinib) to treat people with metastatic non-small cell lung cancer whose tumors have an ROS-1 gene alteration. Xalkori, sponsored by Pfizer, is the first and only FDA approved treatment for patients with ROS-1 positive NSCLC. FDA previously granted the Xalkori expanded use application breakthrough therapy designation and priority review status.
The NCI Human Tumor Atlas Network (HTAN) has published a cluster of papers intended to advance the framework of spatial omics, the science of profiling morphological and molecular features of human cancers in two and three dimensions.
