Veracyte. (Nasdaq: VCYT) have announced that their Immunoscore Colon Cancer test has been included in the Pan-Asian adapted ESMO Clinical Practice Guidelines for the diagnosis, treatment and follow-up of patients with localized colon cancer. The new guidelines appear online in Annals of Oncology and will be highlighted at the ESMO Asia Virtual Oncology Week 2021 meeting, being held November 17-23, 2021
Veracyte acquired the Immunoscore Colon Cancer test through its acquisition of HalioDx in August 2021. The test measures patient immune response at the tumor site and is used to inform chemotherapy decision-making for patients with Stage II and III colon cancer.
The Immunoscore Colon Cancer test was included in the 2020 ESMO Clinical Practice Guidelines for Diagnosis, Treatment, and Follow-up of Colon Cancer. The new Pan-Asian guidelines take into account ethnic differences associated with the treatment of localized colon cancer in Asian patients. They comprise the consensus opinions reached by 14 experts representing the oncological societies of Japan, China, India, Korea, Malaysia, Singapore and Taiwan.
The 2020 ESMO guidelines and the new Pan-Asian adapted version both emphasize that tumor recurrence risk-assessment and expected benefit from chemotherapy are key to the evaluation of adjuvant therapy options. In this context, the Immunoscore Colon Cancer test is recommended for its ability to refine the prognosis of stage II and stage III colon cancer patients, in conjunction with standard cancer staging known as TNM (Tumor, Node, Metastasis).
