Regulatory approval

Published by the Food and Drug Administration. Approved

MEKINIST is a kinase inhibitor indicated as a single agent for the treatment of BRAF-inhibitor treatment-naive patients with unresectable or metastatic melanoma with BRAF V600E or V600K mutations as detected by an FDA-approved test.

This is written in the approval document.

Citation

Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation. Mekinist (trametinib) [package insert]. U.S. Food and Drug Administration website. https://www.accessdata.fda.gov/drugsatfda_docs/label/2024/217513s003lbl.pdf. Revised March 2024. Accessed October 30, 2024.

Therapeutic response

Precision oncology relationships for therapeutic response derived from this regulatory approval.

Organizations Biomarkers Cancer types Therapies
FDA (1) BRAF p.V600E Melanoma Trametinib
FDA (1) BRAF p.V600K Melanoma Trametinib