NEW YORK (360Dx) — Sienna Cancer Diagnostics said today that it has signed an agreement to evaluate its cancer hTERT in vitro diagnostic in thyroid cancer in collaboration with the Royal Melbourne Hospital (RMH) in Australia.

The test detects the hTERT component of telomerase, a biomarker that the company said is upregulated in about 85 percent of tissue-based cancers. Sienna currently markets the test as an aid in bladder cancer diagnosis alongside standard urine cytology testing.