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Japanese Regulators Approve Invivoscribe Assay as CDx for Daiichi Sankyo AML Drug

Jun 19, 2019
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NEW YORK (GenomeWeb) – Invivoscribe announced today that the Japanese Ministry of Health, Labor, and Welfare (MHLW) has approved the firm's LeukoStrat CDx FLT3 Mutation Assay as the companion diagnostic for Daiichi Sankyo's quizartinib for the treatment of FLT3-ITD positive relapsed or refractory acute myeloid leukemia (AML) patients.

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