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FDA approves one-of-a-kind cancer gene test

In In The News by Barbara Jacoby

By: Associated Press From: nypost.com U.S. regulators have approved a first-of-a-kind test that looks for mutations in hundreds of cancer genes at once, giving a more complete picture of what’s driving a patient’s tumor and aiding efforts to match treatments to those flaws. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved Foundation Medicine’s test for patients with advanced or widely spread …