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Saturday, June 2, 2018

Foundation Med, Partners at #ASCO18 on Comprehensive Genome Profiling, Cancer


 Foundation Medicine, Inc. (NASDAQ:FMI) announced that new data generated from its comprehensive genomic profiling (CGP) assays will be presented at the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Annual Meeting from June 1-5, 2018 in Chicago. The company and its collaborators will present a total of 28 studies, including two oral presentations. Highlights of these presentations include:
  • studies demonstrating the importance of known and novel genomic biomarkers of immunotherapy response, including tumor mutational burden (TMB), microsatellite instability (MSI) and PBRM1 alterations across a diverse range of cancer types that could inform more precise use of these treatments;
  • new data from PURE-01, a phase II study evaluating neo-adjuvant pembrolizumab in urothelial bladder cancer demonstrates the ability of CGP to detect genomic biomarkers (RB1PBRM1 and TMB) when combined with T-cell inflammation signatures to potentially predict response to immunotherapy;
  • new data showing that high tissue TMB is associated with higher likelihood of response and longer duration of response to atezolizumab in non-small cell lung cancer, metastatic urothelial carcinoma and melanoma;
  • data from FoundationACT® liquid biopsy assay, describing the landscape of kinase fusions and rearrangements from ctDNA in more than 9,000 clinical cases across multiple cancer types; and
  • updated data from the precision oncology I-PREDICT clinical trial showing improvements in patient outcomes with integration of molecular tumor boards informed by CGP into treatment planning.

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