Veracyte Announces that New Afirma GRID Data Suggest Prognostic Ability of Molecular Testing for Thyroid Tumors
“Clinicians generally want to avoid overtreatment of patients with non-aggressive thyroid tumors while targeting more-intensive treatment to those patients with aggressive disease.
- “Clinicians generally want to avoid overtreatment of patients with non-aggressive thyroid tumors while targeting more-intensive treatment to those patients with aggressive disease.
- The challenge is distinguishing between them, especially given the heterogeneity of thyroid tumors,” said Joshua Klopper, M.D., Veracyte’s medical director for Endocrinology.
- “The studies presented at ENDO 2024 today show how our Research-Use-Only Afirma GRID tool, which leverages our whole-transcriptome-derived testing approach, is helping scientists better understand important nuances in the molecular underpinnings of thyroid tumors.
- Researchers leveraged the Afirma GRID database to characterize the expression of PSMA (FOLH1) in a cohort of nearly 50,000 thyroid nodules sent for Afirma GSC molecular testing.