FDA Nod For Loxo/Bayer Tissue Agnostic Drug Marks Paradigm Shift In Cancer
Executive Summary
Vitrakvi is effective against a wide variety of cancers driven by NTRK fusion. But finding the patients who will benefit will be a challenge, given there are expected to be only around 2,500 to 3,000 new cases in the US and testing for the mutation is uncommon.
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