Webinar: Best Practices for Bringing Plasma Biopsy In-house
The demand for access to less invasive biopsy methods for cancer presents a critical decision for many provider laboratories. Access to in-house testing solutions has become an urgent need for many labs in order to provide rapid and accurate precision oncology services to oncologists that may improve treatment selection and outcomes for individuals, and enable laboratories to be more competitive in a fast-growing diagnostic market.
In this webinar, Dr. Melissa McConechy, Senior manager, Assay development at Canexia Health outlined the best practices and processes for transitioning to in-house testing including critical factors such as staffing, pre-analytical considerations for blood collection, sample input, limitations and generation of clinical reports.
Some key takeaways from the webinar include:
Key challenges that labs face to offer NGS-based panels for somatic mutations fall under three categories:
Complex testing which include deep expertise in very diverse areas (such as oncology, genomics, computational biology, bioinformatics)
High level of quality assurance
Time and cost concerns
Variability of input per sample directly affects input HGEs and thus the sensitivity for detecting ctDNA mutations
Setting up a liquid biopsy assay in your laboratory is achievable with the choice of right assay and workflow
Canexia Health’s liquid biopsy assay demonstrated actionable results for patients as part of Access to Testing and Treatment (ACTT) project in Canada.
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.
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.
Project ACTT (Access to Cancer Testing and Treatment) in Response to COVID-19 was a joint effort led by Imagia Canexia Health and supported by Digital Supercluster and partner institutions.