May 19, 2021 | Jen Temple, Head of Communications | Reading Time: < 1 minute
An in-depth article in GenomeWeb highlights Sutter Health’s work with Canexia to assess if a “triaged, in-house testing strategy improves outcomes, lowers cost, and reduces access inequities.”
“While most organizations are still outsourcing NGS testing, health institutions are increasingly implementing local testing strategies. In a 2019 precision oncology survey of oncologists and pathologists conducted by Novartis, 83 percent said their organizations send out NGS testing to third-party labs. However, there was a 58 percent increase from 2018 to 2019 in respondents reporting they had in-house NGS testing. Faster turnaround time and better management of patients’ data were among the top advantages cited for in-house NGS testing.”
“An internal testing strategy can also help improve access to clinical trials, which are a big part of precision oncology programs but tend not to be broadly accessible within community practices where most patients get treated. With in-house testing, the institution maintains and manages patients’ samples, which also bolsters an institution’s ability to do research using patients’ biomarker data.”
“For both Canexia and Sutter, there is also a health equity element to all this. Studies continue to show that despite greater availability of FDA-approved precision oncology treatments in recent years and exponential growth within the genetic testing industry, not all cancer patients are benefitting from these advances.”
June 5, 2023
To discuss the development of the Endometrial ProMisE Molecular Classifier, and the new NSMP study further, we are delighted to have Dr. Jessica McAlpine and Dr. Amy Jamieson, esteemed gynecological cancer surgeons at Vancouver General Hospital, who have been instrumental in the development and implementation of this innovative tool.
May 15, 2023
We were grateful for the opportunity to attend and present at the AACR Annual Meeting last week, where three of our scientists highlighted some of the exciting work happening in our Vancouver lab.
March 28, 2023
Imagia Canexia Health announced that three abstracts highlighting the company’s new learnings and tools will be presented at the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) Annual Meeting 2023, taking place April 14-19, 2023, at the Orange County Convention Center in Orlando, Florida.