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Milestones In Basket Trials: Roche's VE-BASKET And 'My Pathway'

 
• By Bridget Silverman

Roche continues to invest in basket trials as tools to guide drug development. The "My Pathway" program expands from the one drug/one mutation focus of VE-BASKET to include four of the company's marketed oncologics.

Roche's broad oncology therapy portfolio and diagnostic testing expertise make it a natural sponsor for histology-independent basket trials. It is following the VE-BASKET trial of Zelboraf (vemurafenib) for non-melanoma BRAF V600-mutated cancers with "My Pathway," a basket trial to identify potential new uses for four of its marketed targeted therapies.

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