FDA granted a Rare Pediatric Disease Designation to ABT-414, an investigational antibody drug conjugate targeting the epidermal growth factor receptor for the treatment of pediatric patients with EGFR-amplified Diffuse Intrinsic Pontine Glioma, known to be highly aggressive and difficult to treat brain tumors found at the base of the brain. According to AbbVie, the drug’s...
In this episode of The Cancer Letter Podcast, Paul Goldberg, editor and publisher of The Cancer Letter, Jacquelyn Cobb, managing editor, discuss the Sept. 23 meeting of the FDA Molecular and Clinical Genetics Panel of the Medical Devices Advisory Committee, during which the panel voted in favor of Galleri, the multi-cancer detection test from GRAIL Inc., to become the first multi-cancer detection test to receive regulatory approval.
