VENTANA PD-L1 assay received FDA approval as a complementary diagnostic to identify PD-L1 expression levels in patients considering treatment with the FDA-approved Roche cancer immunotherapy Tecentriq (atezolizumab) for previously treated metastatic non-small cell lung cancer.
How’s this for a paradox: The better cancer centers become at keeping patients alive, the more expensive cancer care becomes. This brutal tradeoff hits harder in rural areas, where the cancer burden is higher and the investigator and clinical trial representation is lower.
