Genetic Technologies invited to join CancerIQ online platform

Genetic Technologies has negotiated a partnership agreement with Chicago-based CancerIQ. CancerIQ enables Healthcare Institutions and Clinics to support cancer prevention programs by supporting and simplifying the identification of high-risk patients. Over the past few years, CancerIQ has shown, in real-world breast imaging settings, that genetic testing uptake is increased when their platform is integrated into the operational pipeline within the imaging center. Similarly, clinics using CancerIQ have also showed an increase in identification of atrisk adults allowing the clinics to prioritize patients for preventive cancer screenings. Until now, the CancerIQ offerings have been limited to traditional risk assessment models and standard germline testing panels for the assessment of hereditary risk. The inclusion of the geneType Risk Assessment Test portfolio supports CancerIQ’s expansion into primary preventive care where the missions of both companies overlap. GENE and CancerIQ are both dedicated to enabling healthcare providers to assess patients’ comprehensive risk in order to personalize cancer prevention efforts. GeneType will be CancerIQ’s first lab partner solely focused on polygenic-integrated clinical risk prediction. GeneType’s focus has always been population healthcare, but until recently healthcare systems have been largely concentrating on hereditary cancer risk. With the integration of geneType into the CancerIQ platform, healthcare systems have the opportunity to engage in polygenic-integrated clinical risk assessment for the general population across nine major diseases spanning cancer and cardiometabolic disease.