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RARITAN, N.J., Dec. 27, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Veridex, LLC today announced that new Category I Current Procedural Technology (CPT) codes for circulating tumor cell (CTC) testing will go into effect in the United States on January 1, 2013. CPT codes are assigned by the American Medical Association (AMA) to medical, surgical, and diagnostic services to communicate uniform information about medical services and procedures among physicians, patients, payers and others for...
RARITAN, N.J., Dec. 12, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Veridex, LLC today announced approval from the China State Food & Drug Administration (SFDA) for the CellSearch(®) circulating tumor cell (CTC) test as an in vitro diagnostic for women with metastatic breast cancer. This makes CellSearch(®) the first and only approved CTC test for cancer patients in China, which is the seventh country outside of the United States and European Union to clear CellSearch(®) for use as an aid in the...
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C., Dec. 11, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- When Teresa Thorn started getting nausea last February, she thought it was an ulcer, something she'd had years earlier. As the days went on, though, the nausea remained and Thorn's color started changing, something her co-workers noticed. Finally one Sunday, she and her mother, Naomi Ivester, went to the Emergency Department at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center, where a battery of tests began. Her longtime physician at...
REDWOOD CITY, Calif., Dec. 10, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Genomic Health, Inc. (Nasdaq: GHDX) today announced the results from six studies of the Oncotype® DX breast cancer test presented at the 34(th) Annual CTRC-AACR San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium (SABCS) reinforcing the impact of the test on facilitating better informed treatment decisions in patients with node-negative and node-positive invasive early-stage breast cancer. Additionally, two studies demonstrated the test's cost...
MISSISSAUGA, ON, Dec. 10, 2012 /CNW/ - Roche today announced updated survival results from the Phase III CLEOPATRA study, which showed that the combination of Perjeta® (pertuzumab), Herceptin® (trastuzumab) and docetaxel chemotherapy significantly extended the lives (overall survival) of people with previously untreated HER2-positive metastatic breast cancer (mBC), compared to Herceptin, chemotherapy and placebo. Results showed that the risk of death was reduced by 34 percent...
SEATTLE, Dec. 5, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Cell Therapeutics, Inc. (CTI) (NASDAQ and MTA: CTIC) today reported on interim results from a cooperative group sponsored Phase 2 clinical trial of brostallicin in combination with cisplatin for the treatment of women with metastatic triple-negative breast cancer that were presented at the San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium (SABCS) held from December 4-8, 2012. The study enrolled women with confirmed measurable metastatic disease and triple...
Several drugs companies have ineffectively tried to produce antibodies that bind to the IGF-1 receptor on the cell surface, which has a critical part to play in the development of cancer. Scientists at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden have now ascertained how these antibodies work, and can explain why only some cancer patients are helped by IGF-1 blockers during clinical tests. The researchers also present a means by which drugs of this kind could help more cancer patients. Every cell...
MONTCLAIR, N.J., Nov. 26, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- MetaStat, Inc. ("MetaStat" or the "Company") (OTCBB: MTST) today announced the October 31, 2012 online publication of "Selective gene-expression profiling of migratory tumor cells in vivo predicts clinical outcome in breast cancer patients" in Breast Cancer Research, an international, peer-reviewed online journal. Dr. John S. Condeelis, Chairman of MetaStat's Scientific Advisory Board, is senior on the publication. Dr. Condeelis holds...
HOBOKEN, N.J., Nov. 20, 2012 /PRNewswire-iReach/ -- East Coast Advanced Plastic Surgery (ECA Plastic Surgery) is pleased to announce the availability of a new surgical procedure, the Vascularized Lymph Node Transfer (VLNT), for patients who are suffering from Secondary Lymphedema and are appropriate surgical candidates. Lymphedema is a condition that can be caused by different treatments for breast cancer. For example, when lymphatic vessels are disrupted by surgery or radiation...
FRAMINGHAM, Mass., Nov. 19, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Dune Medical Devices, Inc., announced today that it has received an Approvable Letter for its Premarket Approval Application (PMA) from the Food and Drug Administration. The Approvable Letter states that the MarginProbe System PMA is approvable subject to final agreement with FDA on the design of the required Post Approval Study. "We are delighted to have come to this point in the approval process with FDA and will work diligently...
