pancreatic cancer

Exact Sciences and the Mayo Clinic are working to develop a blood test for pancreatic cancer that might be able to diagnose patients with early-stage disease.

The firm recently submitted an application to the US Food and Drug Administration to expand Cologuard's label to the 45 to 49 age group.

For the Evry, France-based company, the grant will support its vision of making its technology available as a platform for running oncology assays.

Researchers combined a new and established biomarker to detect nearly 70 percent of pancreatic cancers with a less than 5 percent false-positive rate.

The company also published a study describing ImmRay PanCan-D biomarker signature that it said could be used to detect early-stage pancreatic cancer.

The firm has collected evidence supporting the use of its PancraGen to providing the same molecular information for samples from biliary strictures and solid pancreatic lesions as it has done for years in pancreatic cyst fluid.