On January 10, 2022 GRAIL, LLC, a healthcare company whose mission is to detect cancer early when it can be cured, reported a collaboration with Premier, Inc.’s PINC AI, an advanced technology and services platform that provides artificial intelligence-enabled clinical performance improvement technologies, to support patient access to Galleri, GRAIL’s groundbreaking multi-cancer early detection blood test (Press release, Grail, JAN 10, 2022, View Source [SID1234598540]).
Schedule your 30 min Free 1stOncology Demo!
Discover why more than 1,500 members use 1stOncology™ to excel in:
Early/Late Stage Pipeline Development - Target Scouting - Clinical Biomarkers - Indication Selection & Expansion - BD&L Contacts - Conference Reports - Combinatorial Drug Settings - Companion Diagnostics - Drug Repositioning - First-in-class Analysis - Competitive Analysis - Deals & Licensing
Schedule Your 30 min Free Demo!
Under the partnership, Premier’s PINC AI will augment its AI-enabled clinical decision support technology to alert clinicians to patients who present an elevated risk of cancer and may benefit from early detection with the Galleri test. The alert will be evidence-based, integrated in the workflow and is expected to be compatible with existing electronic medical record systems. Indianapolis-based Community Health Network is expected to be the first health system to pilot candidate alerts.
"At GRAIL, we are steadfast in our mission to detect cancer early. We are committed to making Galleri available to healthcare providers and eligible patients as a complement to guideline recommended cancer screenings, because we know that most cancers are diagnosed too late, when outcomes are poor," said Dr. Joshua Ofman, president and chief medical officer at GRAIL. "The partnership with Premier’s PINC AI, a trusted leader in healthcare technology, will support a key pillar of new early cancer detection technology – the identification of eligible patients through healthcare providers’ existing workflows."
"PINC AI augments clinical intelligence and helps ensure patients receive evidence-based care," said Leigh Anderson, president of Premier’s PINC AI. "Our goal with the new candidate alerts is to ensure more patients who need a cancer screening get one. We believe that Galleri is a game-changing screening tool that has the potential to increase early detection and treatment that can save lives, improve quality and reduce unnecessary costs."
More than 600,000 people die from cancer each year in the U.S., according to the American Cancer Society. This is in large part because the majority of cancers are found in later stages when treatment options are limited. Recommended screening tests only cover five cancer types in the U.S.: breast, colon, cervical, prostate, and, in high-risk smokers, lung. More than 70 percent of cancer deaths are from cancers that lack recommended early detection screening.
In addition, studies have demonstrated that stage at diagnosis has the greatest impact on costs, with decreased costs for patients diagnosed early in the disease compared to those diagnosed at later stages.
"Galleri is a validated and transformational test that can detect more than 50 cancers with a single blood draw and predict the origin with a high degree of accuracy and a low rate of false positives," said Patrick McGill, M.D., executive vice president and chief transformation officer at Community Health Network. "With this collaboration between PINC AI and GRAIL, our clinicians will be alerted when patients meet certain criteria for the ordering of a Galleri test. We believe this will make Community Health Network much more effective in our efforts to detect cancers early, when treatments are more effective, giving our patients the best chances of a successful outcome. Thanks to Community Health Network’s Foundation sponsorship and funding, we are proud to be the first health system taking advantage of this collaboration."
Galleri is available in the U.S. by prescription only to complement existing single cancer screening tests.
About Galleri
The earlier that cancer is detected, the higher the chance of successful outcomes. The Galleri multi-cancer early detection test can detect more than 50 types of cancer, as defined by the American Joint Committee on Cancer Staging Manual, through a routine blood draw. When a cancer signal is detected, the Galleri test predicts the cancer signal origin, or where the cancer is located in the body, with high accuracy to help guide the next steps to diagnosis. The Galleri test requires a prescription from a licensed healthcare provider and should be used in addition to recommended cancer screenings such as mammography, colonoscopy, prostate-specific antigen (PSA) test, or cervical cancer screening. It is intended for use in people with an elevated risk of cancer, such as those aged 50 or older.
For more information about Galleri, visit www.galleri.com.