SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Veracyte, Inc. (Nasdaq: VCYT) today announced that the Swedish Medical Technologies Product (MTP) Council has recommended the Prosigna Breast Cancer Assay for immediate reimbursement and clinical use in all Swedish healthcare regions without legal restrictions beginning November 22, 2021. The milestone follows recent G-BA reimbursement approval in Germany and underscores the test’s continued reimbursement momentum in the European Union.
“We are delighted that the Swedish MTP Council’s recommendation will help ensure that the Prosigna test is accessible to women in Sweden with breast cancer”
The recommendation from the Swedish MTP Council’s first-ever process of its kind specifies that physicians can use the Prosigna assay to help make decisions about adjuvant chemotherapy in individual women over the age of 50 with certain types of breast cancer when there is uncertainty about the benefit of this treatment. It is based on a prior positive assessment from the Swedish Dental and Pharmaceutical Benefits Agency (Tandvårds Läkemedelförmånsverketthe, TLV), which conducted a health technology assessment (HTA) and concluded that the Prosigna test is a cost-effective genomic diagnostic technology for breast cancer.
The Prosigna assay is the only breast cancer genomic test that is both CE-IVD marked and recommended by the MTP Council without legal caveats regarding either General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) compliance or adherence...
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