RE: RNS9 Dec 2020 07:13
Breast cancer is the most frequently diagnosed cancer in women with 2 million cases diagnosed globally and 240,000 cases diagnosed each year in the US. Every tumour evolves differently with time and treatment, bringing about the need for longitudinal patient monitoring. CTCs as a liquid biopsy, provides for minimally invasive, real-time monitoring of cancer patients, giving comprehensive insight into clonal evolution and the potential to provide actionable information for targeted therapy.
MD Anderson Professor and Senior Author James M. Reuben, Ph.D., M.B.A, commented:
"Here we validated the ability of the Parsortix system to isolate and harvest small numbers of cultured cells spiked into healthy donor blood in combination with downstream molecular characterisation. Harvest of captured rare cells by the Parsortix system followed by analysis using the HTG EdgeSeq assay offers the potential for multimodal characterisation of CTCs, which could be highly advantageous in clinical decision making. Furthermore, molecular characterisation of CTCs, as demonstrated in this study, has potential for the development of minimally-invasive diagnostics."
ANGLE Founder and Chief Executive, Andrew Newland, commented:
" This study demonstrates the key capabilities of the Parsortix system to isolate CTCs for multiple forms of molecular analysis and the potential for the future development of clinical diagnostics to guide individualised treatment strategies. It also further exemplifies the utility of the Parsortix system in isolating breast cancer CTCs, which is the focus for ANGLE's FDA submission made in September 2020 and currently under substantive review by the FDA. "
The research, which has been published in the peer-reviewed journal PLOS ONE, may be accessed via https://angleplc.com/library/publications/
Dr. Reuben receives research support from ANGLE, and he is compensated as a member of its Scientific Advisory Board. This financial relationship has been disclosed to MD Anderson's Conflict of Interest Committee.
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