Regulatory approval

Published by the Food and Drug Administration.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration granted approval to everolimus for the treatment of adult and pediatric patients aged 1 year and older with TSC who have subependymal giant cell astrocytoma (SEGA) that requires therapeutic intervention but cannot be curatively resected.

This is written in the approval document as:

AFINITOR and AFINITOR DISPERZ are kinase inhibitors indicated for the treatment of adult and pediatric patients aged 1 year and older with TSC who have subependymal giant cell astrocytoma (SEGA) that requires therapeutic intervention but cannot be curatively resected.

Citation

Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation. Afinitor (everolimus) [package insert]. U.S. Food and Drug Administration website. https://www.accessdata.fda.gov/drugsatfda_docs/label/2022/203985s023,022334s051lbl.pdf. Revised February 2022. Accessed October 30, 2024.

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Therapeutic response

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

Type Biomarker(s) Cancer type Therapy(ies)
Sensitivity (+) TSC1 oncogenic variants Anaplastic Thyroid Cancer Everolimus
Sensitivity (+) TSC2 oncogenic variants Anaplastic Thyroid Cancer Everolimus