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Foundation Medicine Adds New
Markers to Tests Aimed at
Guiding Cancer Immunotherapy
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(See New Markers on page 32)
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oundation Medicine has added the first fully integrated
and validated assessments of tumor mutational burden
(TMB) and microsatellite instability (MSI) to its FoundationOne and FoundatationOne Heme products, markers that
can help oncologists gain deeper insight into potential
individual patient responses to immunotherapy treatments for cancer. The additional markers expand the company's products geared toward cancer immunotherapy,
which already include tests for PD-1 and PD-L1 protein
expression.
"Cancer immunotherapies are at the forefront of cancer treatment, and new, quantitative approaches are
needed to predict clinical responses to this important,
but also expensive, class of therapies," said Vincent Miller,
M.D., chief medical officer of Foundation Medicine. "Prior
to our ability to measure TMB and MSI with FoundationOne, these biomarkers could only be detected separately,
either through tests such as immunohistochemistry, polymerase chain reaction (PCR) or whole exome sequencing.
PNRI to Tap Into
Indivumed's Database for
Cancer Research
S
eattle-based Pacific Northwest Research Institute
(PNRI) announced a research collaboration that will
see world-renowned computational biologist David Galas,
Ph.D., harness the molecular and clinical cancer data of
Indivumed to better understand the complexities of cancer with the intent to develop individualized treatments
for the disease.
Indivumed's global Cancer Database and Biobank contains more than 4.5 million biological data points associated with more than 600,000 discrete tumor, blood and
urine samples obtained from approximately 25,000 cancer
patients.
"Accessing Indivumed's global Cancer Database is a
great opportunity for us to better understand how all the
pieces of a cancer patient's biology fit together by detecting complex dependencies in this extensive data set," said
Dr. Galas, principal scientist at the Pacific Northwest Diabetes Research Institute.
(See Cancer Database on page 26)
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