Personalis Joins Top UK Cancer Research Organizations to Evaluate Earlier Cancer Recurrence Detection Through Groundbreaking Study
Personalis, Inc. (Nasdaq: PSNL), Cancer Research UK’s Cancer Research Horizons, University College London (UCL), and the Francis Crick Institute today announced a collaboration to deploy NeXT Personal , a personalized liquid biopsy-based research assay, for the TRACERx study, a groundbreaking lung cancer initiative funded by Cancer Research UK.
- Personalis, Inc. (Nasdaq: PSNL), Cancer Research UK’s Cancer Research Horizons, University College London (UCL), and the Francis Crick Institute today announced a collaboration to deploy NeXT Personal , a personalized liquid biopsy-based research assay, for the TRACERx study, a groundbreaking lung cancer initiative funded by Cancer Research UK.
- Previously reported findings from the TRACERx study have transformed our understanding of the evolution of the most common type of lung cancer, non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), and the TRACERx research team is taking practical steps to make precision medicine for lung cancer patients a reality.
- The study will utilize Personalis’ NeXT Personal assay, which has demonstrated high sensitivity for detecting a key marker – circulating tumor DNA (ctDNA) – from a patient’s blood sample, with the goal of enabling earlier detection of residual or recurrent cancer.
- Our high sensitivity NeXT Personal MRD assay is uniquely poised to support the study by providing insights about how tumor biology changes over time and by enabling earlier detection of MRD and cancer recurrence.