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On the cost front, liquid biopsy is cheaper than solid biopsy / PET scans done at a private hospital. Also, since it is a simple blood draw, there is no need for hospital admission, thus reducing the cost of treatment
the current monitoring approaches involve scans which expose patient to radiation.
Strand LB requires a simple blood draw and therefore minimizes the patient’ s need for exposure to radiation and other risks associated with repeated tissue biopsies that also involve surgical intervention.
Please tell us about the years of research effort and funding put into its development?
The research effort has lasted for a couple of years and all the funding is done from in house resources. Strand runs a mature and profitable bioinformatics business.
The test was indigenously developed at Strand Life Sciences, Bangalore and clinical validation was done in collaboration with Mazumdar Shaw Cancer Center & TMC, Mumbai.
How can the patients access liquid biopsy test?
The test is available to the public and can be ordered via an oncologist in all major hospitals across India. The details of the test are also available at our website www. strandls. com and can the test can be ordered via the same website as well.
42 BioVoiceNews | May 2017