Regulatory approval

Published by the Food and Drug Administration.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration granted approval to atezolizumab for the adjuvant treatment following resection and platinum-based chemotherapy for adult patients with Stage II to IIIA non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) whose tumors have PD-L1 expression on >= 1% of tumor cells, as determined by an FDA-approved test.

This is written in the approval document as:

TECENTRIQ is a programmed death-ligand 1 (PD-L1) blocking antibody indicated as adjuvant treatment following resection and platinum-based chemotherapy for adult patients with Stage II to IIIA NSCLC whose tumors have PD-L1 expression on >= 1% of tumor cells, as determined by an FDA-approved test.

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.

Type Biomarker(s) Cancer type Therapy(ies)
Sensitivity (+) PD-L1 >= 1% Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer Atezolizumab