Prognostic Test Gets CLIA Approval for Assessing Risk of Recurring CRC

Everist Genomics has received the U.S. Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendment certification required for the company to launch its OncoDefender-CRC assay, a prognostic test for assessing the risk of cancer recurrence for patients with early stage colorectal cancer, according to a company news release.

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OncoDefender-CRC, which measures the expression of colorectal cancer-specific genes, is a prognostic test capable of predicting the risk of recurrence in patients previously treated with surgical resection of a stage I/II colon cancer tumor or stage I rectal cancer tumor. The company will officially launch the test later this month, according to the news release.

Read the news release about OncoDefender-CRC.

Read other coverage about colorectal cancer prevention:

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