Cancer research is purposely methodical and measured. So – somewhat paradoxically – it can be difficult to keep up with the steady stream of discoveries in the literature and presented at conferences like AACR. As a developer and manufacturer of platform-agnostic NGS reference standards, we’re in a unique position to collaborate with cancer genomics assay developers, laboratories, pharmaceutical companies, and other organizations invested in more precise and robust cancer tests.

I am pleased to share findings from a newly published peer-reviewed study with foundational circulating tumor DNA (ctDNA) pre-analytical and analytical testing in multiple technologies and assay chemistries. The study, “Multi-laboratory Assessment of a New Reference Material for Quality Assurance of Cell-Free Tumor DNA Measurements,” was just published in The Journal of Molecular Diagnostics (He, Stein et al. 2019).

As originally seen in The Journal of Precision Medicine March 2019.

Targeted therapies and now recently, immunotherapies, have demonstrated great promise towards increasing response rates, as well as duration of response for cancer patients. This is often achieved by understanding biomarkers associated with therapeutic response and then stratifying patients accordingly.