Regulatory approval
Published by the Health Canada.
Health Canada approved nivolumab as monotherapy for the treatment of adult patients with locally advanced or metastatic non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) with progression on or after platinum-based chemotherapy. Patients with EGFR or ALK genomic tumour aberrations should have disease progression on a therapy for these aberrations prior to receiving OPDIVO.
This is written in the approval document as:
OPDIVO, as monotherapy, is indicated for the treatment of adult patients with locally advanced or metastatic non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) with progression on or after platinum-based chemotherapy. Patients with EGFR or ALK genomic tumour aberrations should have disease progression on a therapy for these aberrations prior to receiving OPDIVO.
Citation
Therapeutic response
Precision oncology relationships for therapeutic response derived from this regulatory approval.
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