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Acute Myeloid Leukemia
Xenomics Announces License with Warnex of Acute Myeloid Leukemia Assay
March 7th, 2008
Xenomics, Inc. (Pink Sheets:XNOM, FWB:XE7) announces that it has granted Warnex Medical Laboratories, a division of Warnex Inc., nonexclusive rights in Canada to offer NPM1 testing as a laboratory service for the diagnosis, stratification and monitoring of patients with Acute Myeloid Leukemia (AML). AML is a clinically heterogeneous disease with about 200,000 new cases per year worldwide. The disease subgrouping by karyotypic abnormalities indicates patient prognosis. However, in almost half of AML cases the karyotype appears normal and provides no guide for the physician. A recent discovery by Drs. Falini and Mecucci showed that many AML patients have mutations in the...
Source: Health Business Week (2008-03-07)
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