University Hospital Frankfurt MVZ GmbH, first laboratory offering Proclarix® in Germany
Zurich-Schlieren, Switzerland and Frankfurt am Main, Germany, December 2, 2020 – The University Hospital Frankfurt MVZ (Medical Outpatient Care Center) GmbH, and Proteomedix, the Swiss cancer diagnostics company, announced today that Proclarix®, a new blood-based test for prostate cancer patient management, is made routinely available in Germany.
”Proclarix is an innovative new decision support tool to improve classification in prostate cancer diagnostics in men with elevated PSA levels. “We are excited to be the first clinical partner in Germany to offer this test”, said Prof. Dr. med. Peter Wild. “The procedure combines the ease-of-use and high acceptance for patients of a blood-based biomarker test with advanced bioinformatics to a risk score supporting physicians in patient management”
“We are delighted to have the University Hospital Frankfurt MVZ as a partner and expect that our collaboration will help to identify men suspected to have clinically relevant prostate cancer faster”, said Dr. med. Maurizio Ballerini, VP Market Development EMEA of Proteomedix. Dr. Ralph Schiess, CSO and co-founder of Proteomedix added: “The Proclarix’ risk score has been validated specifically in this challenging patient population so that it can help to reduce the number of biopsies avoiding invasive procedures, anxiety, discomfort, pain and complications. The clinical benefit of the Proclarix test was validated as part of an international multi-center study in which the Urology Clinic at the Frankfurt University Hospital, Prof. Dr. med. Felix Chun was also involved”.