Overview of Companion Diagnostics (CDx) for Precision Medicine

Author(s):  
Il-Jin Kim ◽  
David Jablons
Author(s):  
Alexander Meisel

Until recently, the clinical management of cancer heavily relied on anatomical and histopathological criteria, with ad hoc guidelines directing the therapeutic choices in specific indications. In the last years, the development and therapeutic implementation of novel anticancer therapies significantly improved the clinical outcome of cancer patients. Nonetheless, such cutting-edge approaches revealed the limitation of the one-size-fits-all paradigm. The newly discovered molecular targets can be exploited either as bona fide targets for subsequent drug development, or as tools to precision medicine, in the form of prognostic and/or predictive biomarkers. This article provides an overview of some of the most recent advances in precision medicine in oncology, with a focus on novel tissue-agnostic anticancer therapies. The definition and implementation of biomarkers and companion diagnostics in clinical trials and clinical practice are also discussed, as well as the changing landscape in clinical trial design.


Author(s):  
Seung Eun Yu ◽  
Ji Yeon Baek ◽  
Sang Myung Woo ◽  
Kyun Heo ◽  
Byong Chul Yoo

2020 ◽  
Vol 36 (4) ◽  
pp. 410-417
Author(s):  
Laurenz Govaerts ◽  
Anouk Waeytens ◽  
Walter Van Dyck ◽  
Steven Simoens ◽  
Isabelle Huys

IntroductionPrecision medicines rely on companion diagnostics to identify patient subgroups eligible for receiving the pharmaceutical product. Until recently, the Belgian public health payer, RIZIV-INAMI, assessed precision medicines and companion diagnostics separately for reimbursement decisions. As both components are considered co-dependent technologies, their assessment should be conducted jointly from a health technology assessment (HTA) perspective. As of July 2019, a novel procedure was implemented accommodating for this joint assessment practice. The aim of this research was to formulate recommendations to improve the assessment in the novel procedure.MethodsThis study evaluated the precision medicine assessment reports of RIZIV-INAMI of the last 5 years under the former assessment procedure. The HTA framework for co-dependent technologies developed by Merlin et al. for the Australian healthcare system was used as a reference standard in this evaluation. Criteria were scored as either present or not present.ResultsThirteen assessment reports were evaluated. Varying scores between reports were obtained for the domain establishing the co-dependent relationship between diagnostic and pharmaceutical. Domains evaluating the clinical utility of the biomarker and the cost-effectiveness performed poorly, whereas the budget impact and the transfer of trial data to the local setting performed well.RecommendationsBased on these results we recommend three amendments for the novel procedure. (i) The implementation of the linked evidence approach when direct evidence of clinical utility is not present, (ii) incorporation of a bias assessment tool, and (iii) further specify guidelines for submission and assessment to decrease the variability of reported evidence between assessment reports.


2020 ◽  
Vol 20 (12) ◽  
pp. 1183-1198
Author(s):  
Thomas B. G. Poulsen ◽  
Azra Karamehmedovic ◽  
Christopher Aboo ◽  
Malene Møller Jørgensen ◽  
Xiaobo Yu ◽  
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