Multi-Companion Profiling Assay Enters FDA, CMS Express Lanes
Executive Summary
The FoundationOne assay has been accepted into FDA's Expedited Access Pathway and the FDA/CMS Parallel Review program in an effort to advance what would be the first assay approved as a companion diagnostic for a range of tumor targets and drugs at once.
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