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SOPHiA GENETICS Announces First Homologous Recombination Deficiency (HRD) Customer in Canada
University of Saskatchewan's (USask) Advanced Diagnostics Research Laboratory will use SOPHiA DDM™ Platform to advance research on ovarian cancer care BOSTON
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[{"type":"text","content":"University of Saskatchewan's (USask) Advanced Diagnostics Research Laboratory will use SOPHiA DDM™ Platform to advance research on ovarian cancer care\nBOSTON and ROLLE, Switzerland, March 20, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- SOPHiA GENETICS (Nasdaq: SOPH), a cloud-native software company and a leader in data-driven medicine, today announced the University of Saskatchewan (USask) as its first HRD customer in Canada. USask will implement the SOPHiA DDM™ Platform for use in its cutting-edge clinical trial, which aims to substantially improve the quality of life for ovarian cancer patients through expanded genetic testing. This is the first clinical trial in Canada designed to improve ovarian cancer treatment decisions and inspire guideline changes to increase access to advanced testing.\n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n \nOvarian cancer is the most fatal gynecologic cancer; only about 45 percent of patients in Canada survive more than five years after diagnosis.1 The current standard for ovarian cancer tumor testing in Canada tests only for the absence or presence of a BRCA mutation; this identifies only a fraction of patients with genetic changes in their tumor.2 The latest trial from USask will use additional genetic diagnostic tools, and the SOPHiA DDM™ Platform, to inform oncologists on a wider spread of genes and potential mutations, which can be indicative of whether a patient may respond better to a targeted therapy rather than chemotherapy. \n\"Using genetic testing to uncover tumor mutations and support treatment planning for cancer patients is a perfect example of precision medicine in practice. It's exactly what we at SOPHiA GENETICS are working so hard to make available to clinician researchers around the world,\" said John Carey, Managing Director, NORAM, SOPHiA GENETICS. \"The research being led by the USask Advanced Diagnostics Research Laboratory (ADRL) team to advance genomic analysis of patient tumors has the potential to drastically improve the lives of thousands throughout Canada, and we are honored our SOPHiA DDM™ Platform is a pivotal part of that research.\"\nThe SOPHiA DDM™ Comprehensive Profiling Solution coupled with SOPHiA GENETICS' proprietary deep learning algorithm, GIInger™, will provide USask with a widespread look at potential mutations for each patient. This testing will provide the researchers with detailed genomic in...