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Patients, Physicians Rely on ChemoFx(R) to Support Their Cancer Treatment Decisions
Date:2/3/2010

PITTSBURGH, Feb. 3 /PRNewswire/ -- An era of personalized medicine is redefining how patients and doctors work together to fight cancer.  Now, drug response markers such as the ChemoFx® diagnostic test show promising results which can help to determine individual cancer treatment plans when using various chemotherapeutic agents.

ChemoFx® is a test produced by Precision Therapeutics, Inc., a life sciences company in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. With the introduction of this innovative drug response marker, the company has pioneered a method of identifying cancer cell response and sensitivity to various chemotherapeutic and biologic agents at the biopsy stage -- long before a patient actually begins chemotherapy -- providing a custom blueprint of a patient's probable tumor response.

The result is valuable insight into which chemotherapy drugs are most likely to work in an individual cancer patient's own body -- along with those that are unlikely to be effective in shrinking and killing the cancerous tumor.  This information can then be used to help guide chemotherapy treatment decisions, according to company officials.

"Patients and their physicians will have an understanding of how chemo will impact the cancer cells themselves long before it impacts the patient," says Sean McDonald, CEO of Precision Therapeutics.  "By testing multiple agents on a patient's cancer cells in the lab, ChemoFx® determines the chemotherapies that are more likely to be effective and avoid those that are likely to be ineffective, giving patients a powerful advantage in their fight against cancer."

The diagnostic test works by taking a sample of a patient's tumor, which is removed during biopsy or surgery, and sending that sample to the Precision Therapeutics labo
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