SOPHiA GENETICS a leading healthcare technology company specializing in data-driven medicine, has unveiled its new Residual Acute Myeloid (RAM) Application, enhancing their oncology portfolio to address measurable residual disease (MRD) in global healthcare settings starting this summer.
Acute Myeloid Leukemia (AML) is a significant cancer type, despite its rarity, often relapsing within three years post-remission for over half of patients. Effective post-treatment monitoring is crucial, particularly within the initial two years, to promptly detect relapse. MRD solutions are pivotal in guiding post-remission therapies, detecting early relapses, and serving as a critical endpoint in clinical trials, enhancing patient outcomes.
Philippe Menu, M.D., PhD., Chief Medical Officer and Chief Product Officer at SOPHiA GENETICS, emphasized the importance of MRD in optimizing therapy sequencing and improving AML outcomes. The SOPHiA DDM™ RAM Solution leverages next-generation sequencing (NGS) to achieve high sensitivity, detecting one cancer cell among 10,000 cells. It enables sensitive variant detection down to 0.01% VAF, covering essential genes recommended by guidelines.
Key features include longitudinal variant monitoring, offering insights into mutational changes over time for personalized patient management. The solution integrates updated databases and customizable reporting tools for comprehensive MRD assessments. Moreover, SOPHiA GENETICS plans to refine its machine learning algorithms continuously, promising accurate MRD results within four days.
SOPHiA GENETICS representatives are available at AMP Europe ,June 24-27 to discuss AML monitoring with this new application.