Exact Sciences to Provide Mayo Clinic Patients with Individualized Cancer Tumor Information to Inform Treatment
Exact Sciences (NASDAQ: EXAS), a leading provider of cancer screening and diagnostic tests, today announced the launch of an initiative with Mayo Clinic to provide comprehensive genomic profiling and hereditary cancer tests to patients.
- Exact Sciences (NASDAQ: EXAS), a leading provider of cancer screening and diagnostic tests, today announced the launch of an initiative with Mayo Clinic to provide comprehensive genomic profiling and hereditary cancer tests to patients.
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Initiative advances precision cancer medicine by bringing comprehensive genomic profiling and hereditary cancer tests to patients at the Mayo Clinic Comprehensive Cancer Center (Graphic: Business Wire)
“This collaboration supports our mission to help eradicate cancer by preventing it, detecting it earlier, and guiding personalized treatment,” said Kevin Conroy , chairman and chief executive officer, Exact Sciences. - The Riskguard hereditary cancer test helps patients and their physicians understand the patients' hereditary risk of cancer.
- “It will also lead to new scientific and clinical discoveries by Mayo Clinic Comprehensive Cancer Center and Mayo Clinic's Center for Individualized Medicine .”
Patients will consent to have the tests performed and to have the data shared with Mayo Clinic.