Pembrolizumab approved for Merkel cell carcinoma
February 2019—The FDA granted accelerated approval to pembrolizumab (Keytruda, Merck) for adult and pediatric patients with recurrent locally advanced or metastatic Merkel cell carcinoma.
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Hear experts review the biological and clinical significance of the HER2 expression continuum in breast tissue, providing a clearer understanding of how these variations might impact diagnosis, and discuss the emerging importance of documenting HER2-low and HER2-ultralow categories using a validated IHC assay.
Webinar presenters Keith Wharton, MD, PhD, Global Medical Affairs Leader–Pathology, Roche Diagnostics Solutions, and Hannah Y. Wen, MD, PhD, Director, Breast Pathology Fellowship, Associate Team Leader, Breast Pathology Team, Attending Pathologist, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
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Join us for a session to help improve diagnostic accuracy in your practice when scoring HER2 IHC 0 with faint, incomplete membrane staining in ≤10% of tumor cells vs IHC 0 with no membrane staining detected in patients with mBC.
Webinar presenter Jeffrey Gregg, MD, University of Nevada
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Webinar presenters Funda Meric-Bernstam, MD, Chair, Department of Investigational Cancer Therapeutics Medical Director, Institute for Personalized Cancer Therapy, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, and Emina E. Torlakovic, MD, PhD, College of Medicine, University of Saskatchewan, Canadian Biomarker Quality Assurance, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada, and Carol Cheung, MD, PhD, JD, FRCPC, Deputy Director, Canadian Biomarker Quality, Assurance—Programme canadien d’assurance de la qualité des biomarqueurs
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LGC acquires SeraCare Life Sciences
February 2019—London-based LGC announced the acquisition of SeraCare Life Sciences. SeraCare provides quality control materials for infectious disease testing through its Accurun reagents and next-generation sequencing reference materials through its Seraseq products for oncology, noninvasive prenatal testing, and inherited disease testing.
ArcherDx cDx assay gets breakthrough designation
February 2019—ArcherDx announced that the FDA granted a breakthrough device designation for its companion diagnostic assay application.
FDA expands approval of olaparib
February 2019—Olaparib (Lynparza, AstraZeneca) has been approved by the FDA for the maintenance treatment of adult patients with deleterious or suspected deleterious germline or somatic BRCA-mutated advanced epithelial ovarian, fallopian tube, or primary peritoneal cancer who are in complete or partial response to first-line, platinum-based chemotherapy.
Sample prep kit for FFPE tissue analysis
January 2019—Menarini Silicon Biosystems announced the launch of its DEPArray FFPE SamplePrep Kit at the Association for Molecular Pathology’s annual meeting. The kit allows for the disaggregation and staining of formalin-fixed, paraffin-embedded tissue sections down to a single-cell suspension. The kit enables the detection, identification, and recovery of different cell populations by the DEPArray system based on specific immunofluorescent staining and DNA content. It has been tested using FFPE human tissue sections of primary and metastatic keratin-positive carcinomas in lung, breast, colon, pancreas, prostate, and ovarian tissues.
SeraCare partners with AccuRef, Bayer
January 2019—SeraCare Life Sciences announced an exclusive partnership with AccuRef Diagnostics, a division of Applied StemCell, to market and sell AccuRef’s portfolio of CRISPR-engineered cell line reference materials alongside the Seraseq portfolio of NGS cancer products.
QIAscreen HPV PCR test launched in Europe
January 2019—Qiagen launched its QIAscreen HPV PCR Test, a CE-marked in vitro molecular diagnostic test for the detection of 15 recognized high-risk genotypes of human papillomavirus. Validated sample types include cervical specimens collected in PreservCyt, Pathtezt, and Surepath collection medium, as well as self-collected vaginal brush specimens collected and shipped dry or in saline or self-collected cervico-vaginal lavage specimens.
Quest acquires lab services operations
January 2019—Quest Diagnostics and Oxford Immunotec announced that Quest has completed its acquisition of the U.S. laboratory services business of Oxford Immunotec; the T-Spot.TB tuberculosis and the Accutix tick-borne disease testing services are now part of Quest’s portfolio of infectious disease testing services.
Ortho launches MicroTip Partnership assays
January 2019—Ortho Clinical Diagnostics is offering three new assays through its MicroTip Partnership Assay program. The company will offer kappa free light chain and lambda free light chain assays in collaboration with Diazyme Laboratories and a methotrexate assay through a collaboration with Ark Diagnostics and Sekisui Diagnostics.
FDA expands use of Adcetris
January 2019—The FDA expanded the approved use of Adcetris (brentuximab vedotin) injection in combination with chemotherapy for adult patients with certain types of peripheral T-cell lymphoma. This is the first FDA approval for the treatment of newly diagnosed PTCL.