FDA clears first comprehensive at-home Cervical Cancer screening tool.
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FDA clears first comprehensive at-home Cervical Cancer screening tool. Waters Corporation's Onclarity HPV Self-Collection Kit represents a significant advance in expanding access to cervical cancer screening outside the clinic. Waters Corporation announced that the FDA has cleared the Onclarity HPV Self-Collection Kit and approved the BD Onclarity HPV Assay with extended genotyping for at-home use, marking what experts are calling a pivotal step toward eliminating longstanding barriers to cervical cancer screening.[1] A new option for at-home screening. Waters collaborated with the National Institutes of Health's National Cancer Institute through the Cervical Cancer 'Last Mile' Initiative SHIP trial (NCT06498661) to evaluate the accuracy of self-collection for Human Papillomavirus (HPV) testing. The resulting product is now the most comprehensive at-home cervical cancer screening option currently available.[1,2] The BD Onclarity HPV Assay with extended genotyping is a multiplex real-time Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) assay for the qualitative detection of 14 high-risk HPV types, providing on-demand genotyping for individual results of HPV 16, 18, 45, 31, 51, and 52, with pooled results of additional genotypes. The Onclarity assay is the first FDA-approved test that reports 6 HPV strains individually, enabling those strains to be tracked over time, an important...
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