Positive results from Swedish study with DiviTum in metastatic breast cancer published in prestigious journal
Uppsala, Sweden, March 12, 2020. Biovica, active in cancer diagnostics, today announced that results from a study by researchers at Lund University have been published in the well renowned journal Scientific Reports, a journal from Nature. The results support that the blood test DiviTum can be used as a prognostic tool for evaluating treatment outcomes in metastatic breast cancer.The study evaluated thymidine kinase activity in 142 women with newly diagnosed metastatic breast cancer as a tool for first-line prognosis and monitoring. Activity was measured by Biovica's DiviTum test at
Biovica, active in cancer diagnostics, today announced that the scientific journal Clinical Cancer Research has published data from the TREnd study, demonstrating the benefits of using DiviTum® when evaluating palbociclib treatment outcome in women with metastatic breast cancer.“We are very pleased that these results, which were initially presented at the AACR annual meeting 2019, are published in the renowned journal Clinical Cancer Research. The data shows that DiviTum® can be used to evaluate the treatment efficacy of a CDK 4/6 inhibitor in metastatic breast cancer.” said Anders Rylander,
Uppsala, Sweden, November 20, 2019. Biovica, active in cancer biomarkers, today announced clinical data that demonstrate DiviTum as a strong prognostic marker in operable breast cancer. The results will be presented at the San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium, SABCS, December 10-14, 2019, the world´s largest scientific congress focusing on breast cancer.The study is a retrospective analysis on serum samples from a randomized clinical trial comprising 644 women with operable breast cancer (premenopausal with stage II-IIIB HR+ breast cancer). Serum samples were collected pre-operatively on the
Uppsala, Sweden, November 20, 2019. Biovica, active in cancer biomarkers, today announced that clinical data – demonstrating that DiviTum can be used as a dynamic, non-invasive biomarker for metastatic breast cancer patients treated with endocrine therapy and palbociclib – will be presented at the San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium, December 10-14, 2019, the world´s largest scientific congress focusing on breast cancer.The prognostic value of DiviTum was assessed in a prospective study of 103 metastatic breast cancer patients treated from May 2016 until August 2018 at Institut Curie, Paris,