AstraZeneca today announced that the Marketing Authorisation Application for CAPRELSA (vandetanib) received a positive opinion from the Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP) for the treatment of aggressive and symptomatic medullary thyroid cancer (MTC) in patients with unresectable locally advanced or metastatic disease. The proposed indication also states that for patients in whom Rearranged during Transfection (RET) mutation is not known or is negative, a possible lower benefit