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HUNTINGTON BEACH, California and AMSTERDAM, February 4 /PRNewswire/ -- Agendia, a world leader in molecular cancer diagnostics, today announced that its signature breast cancer test MammaPrint(R) will be offered as standard of care for all eligible early stage breast cancer patients at the Netherlands Cancer Institute-Antoni van Leeuwenhoek Hospital (NKI-AVL). The NKI-AVL believes MammaPrint provides better guidance for decisions regarding adjuvant therapy. As one of the participating...

- Company to Provide Update on Pipeline Efforts at 27th Annual J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference - REDWOOD CITY, Calif., Jan. 12 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Genomic Health, Inc. (Nasdaq: GHDX) announced today that it has initiated an independent clinical validation study for its 18-gene Oncotype DX(R) colon cancer assay. Utilizing more than 1,200 patient samples from the landmark QUASAR trial, the validation study will use prospectively defined endpoints to assess the clinical utility of...

SAN ANTONIO, Dec. 13 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Genomic Health, Inc. (Nasdaq: GHDX) today announced findings from a European study demonstrating that the Oncotype DX Recurrence Score(R) result is a significant independent predictor of distant recurrence in both node-negative and node-positive, hormone receptor-positive breast cancer patients who are treated with the aromatase inhibitor anastrozole or with tamoxifen. Researchers from the Royal Marsden Hospital in London discussed...

HUNTINGTON BEACH, California and AMSTERDAM, December 13 /PRNewswire/ -- Dr. Michael Knauer from the Netherlands Cancer Institute today announced data uncovering a substantial group of traditionally miscategorized low risk HER2+ patients. Agendia's highly accurate breast cancer tumor recurrence test, MammaPrint(R), was used to differentiate between patients at high and low risk for recurrence. HER2+ patients are commonly identified as high risk, yet MammaPrint was able to identify a...

HUNTINGTON BEACH, California and AMSTERDAM, December 12 /PRNewswire/ -- Agendia, a world leader in molecular cancer diagnostics, today announced MammaPrint(R)'s ability to predict response to neoadjuvant chemotherapy in breast cancer. Dr. Laura van 't Veer, from the Netherlands Cancer Institute, presented the data at the 2008 San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium (SABCS) during the session Molecular profiling for guiding therapeutic decisions. The study analyzed the association...

HUNTINGTON BEACH, California and AMSTERDAM, December 8 /PRNewswire/ -- Agendia, a world leader in molecular cancer diagnostics, today announced that leading Agendia and the Netherlands Cancer Institute researchers will present data from multiple studies at the 2008 San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium (SABCS) and Agendia will support, with an unrestricted grant, the New Frontiers in Individualized Breast Cancer Therapy symposium. The San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium, one of the...

HUNTINGTON BEACH, Calif., and AMSTERDAM, Netherlands, Sept. 18 /PRNewswire/ -- Agendia, a world leader in molecular cancer diagnostics, today announced that its signature breast cancer tumor recurrence test, MammaPrint(R), has been included in the updated 2008 guidelines of The Dutch Institute for Healthcare Improvement CBO. The CBO guidelines, which cover all areas of healthcare and have an important role to play in the improvement of the quality of patient treatment and care, were drafted...

REDWOOD CITY, Calif., Sept. 3 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Genomic Health, Inc. today announced the publication of positive results from a study indicating that the Oncotype DX(R) Recurrence Score(R) provides additional prognostic information beyond Adjuvant! Online (AO) for breast cancer patients with negative nodes or up to three positive nodes. The study, published in the September 1st issue of the Journal of Clinical Oncology, showed that the Recurrence Score result was a highly...

Gene Express, Inc. today announced that it has signed three definitive agreements with NeoGenomics Laboratories to license the SEM Center and StaRT-PCR(TM) (Standardized Reverse Transcription Polymerase Chain Reaction) Technology. NeoGenomics will support Gene Express in its FDA validation of its Lung Cancer Risk Prediction and BCR/ABL tests. The agreements will also allow NeoGenomics to commercialize Gene Express diagnostic tests, validate future Gene Express technology to fulfill FDA...

AMSTERDAM, Netherlands, June 26 /PRNewswire/ -- Agendia BV, a world leader in gene expression analysis-based diagnostics, is pleased to announce that the company recently received a prestigious award for its groundbreaking MammaPrint(R) test from the Dutch Innovation Platform. MammaPrint, a 70-gene signature diagnostic test that predicts high or low risk of breast cancer tumor recurrence, was chosen out of more than 150 entries as the most pioneering healthcare initiative and will have the...