{"id":6471,"date":"2013-05-15T15:28:22","date_gmt":"2013-05-15T23:28:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.foodanddrugrecall.org\/index.php\/fda-approves-first-companion-diagnostic-to-detect-gene-mutation-associated-with-a-type-of-lung-cancer\/"},"modified":"2013-05-15T15:28:22","modified_gmt":"2013-05-15T23:28:22","slug":"fda-approves-first-companion-diagnostic-to-detect-gene-mutation-associated-with-a-type-of-lung-cancer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.foodanddrugrecall.org\/index.php\/fda-approves-first-companion-diagnostic-to-detect-gene-mutation-associated-with-a-type-of-lung-cancer\/","title":{"rendered":"FDA approves first companion diagnostic to detect gene mutation associated with a type of lung cancer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today approved the cobas EGFR Mutation Test, a companion diagnostic for the cancer drug Tarceva (erlotinib). This is the first FDA-approved companion diagnostic that detects epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) gene mutations, which are present in approximately 10 percent of non-small cell lung cancers (NSCLC).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today approved the cobas EGFR Mutation Test, a companion diagnostic for the cancer drug Tarceva (erlotinib). This is the first FDA-approved companion diagnostic that detects epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) gene mutations, which are present in approximately 10 percent of non-small cell lung cancers (NSCLC).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,4,3,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drug-reacalls-safety-notices-information","category-drug-safety-information-podcasts","category-food-drug-recalls","category-food-safety-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.foodanddrugrecall.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6471","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.foodanddrugrecall.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.foodanddrugrecall.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.foodanddrugrecall.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.foodanddrugrecall.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6471"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.foodanddrugrecall.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6471\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.foodanddrugrecall.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.foodanddrugrecall.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.foodanddrugrecall.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}