Cancer
The latest news on cancer diagnostics, liquid biopsy, and cancer risk testing.
SeekIn's Two-Step Multi-Cancer Early Detection Method May Reduce False Positives, Screening Costs
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Further screening individuals who test positive by SeekIn's OncoSeek protein biomarker test with the NGS-based SeekInCare assay reduced false positives in a study.
Teal Health Closes $10M in Seed Funding to Support Self-Collected Cervical Cancer Test
The at-home collection device is for the detection of human papillomavirus and recently received breakthrough device designation from the FDA.
Foundation Medicine Assay Nabs FDA Approval as CDx for Ojemda in Pediatric Patients
The FoundationOne test can be used to identify patients with relapsed or refractory BRAF-altered pediatric low-grade glioma who may be eligible for therapeutic options.
The retrospective results suggest that the test's sensitivity boost over other platforms can overcome the challenge of detecting ctDNA in adenocarcinomas.
Brain Cancer Study Reveals Immune Cell Populations Linked to Aggressive Subtype
Researchers used single-cell RNA sequencing and spatial transcriptomics to find two myeloid-derived suppressor cell subsets supporting the growth of an aggressive glioblastoma.