–Results strongly support the use of the Oncotype DX® GPS™ test, the only genomic assay that reports individual values for adverse pathology risk, consistent with the new study findings–
San Francisco, CA (UroToday.com) — Exact Sciences Corp., a global leader in cancer diagnostics, announced the publication of results underscoring the importance of adverse pathology as a reliable and critical endpoint for risk-assessment in clinically low-risk prostate cancer patients.1 Published in Urologic Oncology: Seminars and Original Investigations and led by study collaborators at the Cleveland Clinic, the findings showed that men who were discovered to have adverse pathology, following radical prostatectomy, were 10 times more likely to develop metastatic disease and eight times more likely to die from their prostate cancer than those with favorable pathology, up to a 20-year follow up.1 The findings strongly support the clinical use of the Oncotype DX Genomic Prostate Score® (GPS™) test, the only commercial genomic test that was specifically developed to improve assessment of a patient’s risk of adverse pathology, beyond clinical factors alone, and optimized to perform in biopsy samples.2,3