Regulatory approval

Published by the Food and Drug Administration. Approved

MEKINIST is a kinase inhibitor indicated as a single agent for the treatment of BRAF-inhibitor treatment-naive patients with unresectable or metastatic melanoma with BRAF V600E or V600K mutations as detected by an FDA-approved test.

This is written in the approval document.

Citation

Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation. Mekinist (trametinib) [package insert]. U.S. Food and Drug Administration website. https://www.accessdata.fda.gov/drugsatfda_docs/label/2024/217513s003lbl.pdf. Revised March 2024. Accessed October 30, 2024.

Therapeutic response

Precision oncology relationships for therapeutic response derived from this regulatory approval.

Organizations	Biomarkers	Cancer types	Therapies
FDA (2)	BRAF p.V600E	Melanoma	Trametinib
FDA (2)	BRAF p.V600K	Melanoma	Trametinib

Contributions

Date	Contributor	Description
2025-06-26	Van Allen lab	Resolving statements mapped to incorrect propositions
2024-10-30	Van Allen lab	Initial access of FDA approvals