Regulatory approval

Published by the Food and Drug Administration.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration granted approval to atezolizumab for the treatment of adult patients with metastatic non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) who have disease progression during or following platinum-containing chemotherapy. Patients with EGFR or ALK genomic tumor aberrations should have disease progression on FDA-approved therapy for NSCLC harboring these aberrations prior to receiving atezolizumab.

This is written in the approval document as:

TECENTRIQ is a programmed death-ligand 1 (PD-L1) blocking antibody indicated for the treatment of adult patients with metastatic NSCLC who have disease progression during or following platinum-containing chemotherapy. Patients with EGFR or ALK genomic tumor aberrations should have disease progression on FDA-approved therapy for NSCLC harboring these aberrations prior to receiving TECENTRIQ.

Citation

Genentech, Inc. Tecentriq (atezolizumab) [package insert]. U.S. Food and Drug Administration website. https://www.accessdata.fda.gov/drugsatfda_docs/label/2024/761034s053lbl.pdf. Revised April 2024. Accessed October 30, 2024.

Therapeutic response

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

Organization(s)	Biomarker(s)	Cancer type	Therapy(ies)
FDA (1)	EGFR somatic variants	Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer	Atezolizumab
FDA (1)	v::ALK	Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer	Atezolizumab