Vastcon Inc.

$45,555.00 CAD

≈ 7 months of average Canadian pay
Department
National Research Council Canada
Program
Industrial Research Assistance Program – Contributions to Firms
Recipient country
Canada
Fiscal year
2018-2019
Agreement period
May 1, 2018 – March 31, 2019
Reference
nrc-cnrc:172-2018-2019-Q1-906588

Published purpose

Estrogen Receptor (ER) Positive breast cancer is the most common type and can be effectively treated with endocrine therapy. However, the major challenge is the endocrine therapy resistance and breast cancer recurrence in 50% of the patients. VastCo is developing a novel predictive test that could be combined with the receptor status test for the prediction of treatment response to endocrine therapy. This test would help Clinical Oncologists to design treatment regimen for better clinical outcome.

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