Guardant Health Japan Corp. (HQ: Minato-ku, Tokyo/ Representative Director: Mika Takaki), a leading precision oncology company, today announced that the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare (MHLW) in Japan has approved Guardant360® CDx as a companion diagnostic to identify EGFR exon 20 insertion mutations in patients with inoperable or recurrent non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) for consideration of treatment with amivantamab-vmjw combined with chemotherapy.

Thermo Fisher Scientific and AstraZeneca are collaborating on the development of a new solid tissue and blood-based companion diagnostic (CDx) test for Tagrisso (osimertinib).

Agilent Technologies on Tuesday announced that it has received CE marking for the expanded use of its PD-L1 IHC 22C3 pharmDx companion diagnostic assay in patients with non-small cell lung cancer.