Burning Rock Biotech and drugmaker Dizal said Thursday that they have received approval from China's National Medical Products Administration (NMPA) for a next-generation sequencing-based companion diagnostic for the lung cancer drug sunvozertinib.

Guardant Health Japan Corp. (HQ: Minato-ku, Tokyo/ Representative Director: Mika Takaki), a leading precision oncology company, today announced that the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare (MHLW) in Japan has approved Guardant360® CDx as a companion diagnostic to identify EGFR exon 20 insertion mutations in patients with inoperable or recurrent non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) for consideration of treatment with amivantamab-vmjw combined with chemotherapy.

According to recent monitoring data, China recorded 1,060,600 new cases of lung cancer in 2022, accounting for 22% of all malignant tumors.

OSF HealthCare, a 16-hospital integrated health system that serves patients in Illinois and Michigan, and DELFI Diagnostics, Inc., a developer of accessible blood-based tests that deliver a new way to enhance cancer detection, today announced a collaboration to utilize DELFI's FirstLook Lung blood-based cancer screening test to help improve screening rates. DELFI's collaboration with OSF was recently highlighted by the Biden Cancer Moonshot to expand accessibility to lung cancer screening.

Researchers have found a biomarker that provides an early indication of whether a patient is responding to chemo-immunotherapy.

Pfizer and Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc. announced they have entered into a collaboration agreement to help increase local access to next-generation sequencing (NGS)-based testing for lung and breast cancer patients in more than 30 countries across Latin America, Africa, the Middle East and Asia.

Avalon GloboCare and Qi Diagnostics on Tuesday announced their intention to co-develop a breathalyzer device for screening and the early detection of lung cancer.

The Japanese Ministry of Health, Labor, and Welfare (MHLW) has approved the AmoyDx Pan Lung Cancer PCR Panel as a companion diagnostic to direct the use of Eli Lilly's Retevmo (selpercatinib) in RET fusion-positive non-small cell lung cancer.

Owlstone Medical and Bicycle Therapeutics said that the firms will collaborate on research into breath-based early cancer detection tests that would combine Bicycle's proprietary bicyclic peptides with Owlstone's exogenous volatile organic compound probes.

Roche announced on Monday that its Ventana PD-L1 (SP263) assay has received approval from the US Food and Drug Administration for use as a companion diagnostic with Regeneron's Libtayo (cemiplimab) in lung cancer patients.