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Onconetix Announces Successful Clinical Validation of its Innovative Prostate Cancer Test Proclarix in a Danish cohort
CINCINNATI, March 24, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Onconetix, Inc., (Nasdaq: ONCO) ("Onconetix" or the “Company”), (formerly Blue Water Biotech, Inc. (BWV)), a cancer diagnostics company focused on the research, development and commercialization of innovative solutions for oncology, today announced that new clinical data of Proclarix® was presented on March 23, 2025 during the 2025 European Association of Urology (EAU) congress, which data further demonstrates the strong clinical performance of Proc
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