Veracyte Announces Multiple Studies Demonstrating Powerful Results from Afirma® Classifiers To Be Presented at the AACE 2017 Annual Meeting
"Data from the long-term clinical utility studies to be presented at the AACE annual meeting will add to the growing body of evidence reinforcing the Afirma GEC's value and role as a new standard of care in thyroid cancer diagnosis," said
The following Afirma abstracts will be presented during AACE 2017:
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Reduced Surgery Through Afirma GEC Impact to Date and Potential for the Future |
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Six-Year Clinical and Imaging Follow Up of an Office-Based Gene Expression Classifier |
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A Next-Generation Gene Expression Classifier for Cytologically Indeterminate Thyroid |
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In addition to performance data generated in the development of the Afirma GSC, which will be presented on Saturday (Poster #1121), researchers will share data from the pivotal clinical validation study for the next-generation classifier in a
About the Afirma GEC
The Afirma GEC is used to identify patients with benign thyroid nodules among those with indeterminate cytopathology results in order to preserve the thyroid. Each year in
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