March 2020—Qiagen announced the CE marking and launch of its Therascreen PIK3CA RGQ PCR Kit in Europe as an aid in identifying breast cancer patients with a PIK3CA mutation. The Therascreen PIK3CA test was approved in 2019 by the FDA and launched in the U.S. as a companion diagnostic test for Piqray (alpelisib).
The Therascreen assay detects 11 clinically actionable PIK3CA mutations and enables testing of DNA from formalin-fixed, paraffin-embedded tissue or plasma specimens.
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