Drug Opens New Era of Precision Medicine

Drug Opens New Era of Precision Medicine
Ewa Krawczyk/National Cancer Institute via AP

With little fanfare, the Food and Drug Administration did something this week that it's never done before: The agency approved a single prescription drug, pembrolizumab (marketed by Merck as Keytruda) for treatment of solid tumors in any organ so long as the malignancy bears a specific genetic signature.

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