Caris Tissue Competitors
This company has a test that uses tumor RNA expression results to predict the patient’s most likely cancer type(s) from 68 possible cancer types.
What is Tempus?
Product: The Tempus Tumor Origin (TO)
Per this company's website they "pioneered liquid biopsy in advanced cancer."
What is Guardant?
This company has 13 optional add-on testing options that the staff/providers must individually select. This includes AI and IHCs.
What is Tempus?
Note: Caris includes all applicable IHCs per tumor type. Physicians can choose the ability to add on 1 selection to MI Cancer Seek (Caris GPSai)
A first-in-class AI signature provided to assist clinicians with sequencing FOLFOX and FOLFIRI.
What is Caris FOLFIRSTai?
A physician has questions about a specific patient's final report and molecular results.
Who would you reach out to?
What is a MSL?
Name the IHCs included in Foundation Medicine's optional add on testing selection.
What are PD-L1, FOLR1, and HER2?
These two companies offer PD-L1 IHC testing that can be added to any of their offerings including liquid biopsies as an additional single test order.
Note: PD-L1 is a tissue only test, and if added to liquid testing, there will be tissue requirements in addition to liquid specimen requirements.
What is Foundation Medicine?
What is Tempus?
This company does not offer a printable version of their requisition for any testing via their website.
What is Guardant?
Signature offered by Caris that may be used to classify CUP cases as well as provide insight into cases that are clinically ambiguous or have atypical presentation.
What is Caris GPSai?
Key Opinion Leader at large clinic will only use vendors integrated within EMR system. KOL expresses interest in integration. EMR system is Flatiron OncoEMR.
Who would you reach out to?
What is a POP manager (Precision Oncology Programs team)?
Name the turnaround time listed on NeoGenomics's website for their comprehensive tissue assay that includes 517 genes analyzed by DNA, 55 genes by RNA, plus MSI and TMB.
What is 8-10 days?
Guardant 360 now includes this number of genes and a TAT of this many days.
Please note this is the non CDx offering.
What are 740 genes and 7 days?
This competitor no longer offers whole exome testing (DNA) on their main requisition. To order WES they must complete a separate requisition.
What is Tempus?
Note: Caris requisition: Offers both WTS and WES
A Caris program where a clinician is notified when a new therapy is approved for which they have a previously profiled patient that may be eligible.
What is the Look Back Program.
The Account Manager notices a trend of increased number of additional tissue requests and an increase in QNS/Limited tissue cases over the last 3 months with cases coming from a particular pathology department.
Who would you reach out to?
What is a PMID (Precision Medicine Initiatives Director)?
Tempus' CDX indications are for the following cancer type(s).
What is colorectal cancer?
This company has two liquid biopsy offerings. A 105 gene liquid biopsy and an expanded 523 gene liquid biopsy.
What is Tempus?
When ordering this company's CDX options, the staff member must select which indications/tumor type they would like to order.
What is Foundation Medicine?
Note: Caris will include all applicable CDx indications offered based on tumor type.
A step the Caris lab performs to increase the proportion of tumor cells for testing and reduce non-cancer material diluting the tissue section prior to testing.
What is microdissection?
Your largest pathology department is refusing to release tissue on current inpatient due to "billing issues".
Who do you reach out to?
What is the AIM team (Account Implementation Manager)?
These two companies have an option to reflex to liquid biopsy if tissue CDx options QNS.
What is Tempus?
What is Foundation Medicine?
One of liquid biopsies largest competitors is the physician's expectation to find an actionable genomic alteration and perception when a report results without a genomic alteration.
What is the percentage range of patients with cancer in the metastatic setting that have an actionable genomic alteration detected by molecular profiling?
What is 17-51%?
This company offers a comprehensive testing selection that includes CDx based on WES/WTS as well as Additional Services like IHC and AI.
What is Caris?
Motto displayed by Caris leadership by always asking, “What would I do if this patient was my mom?”
What is The Mom Rule?
Your largest account's EMR system went down for an extended amount of time. RN is unable to access reports for patients coming to clinic today. In addition, a new OP would like to place their first order, but staff at the office only knows how to order via EMR.
Who would you call?
What is:
POP team: to notify of downtime and to check with EMR team on ETA of issue correction
AM (Account Manager): to provide requisition in-service"
MOS (Molecular Oncology Specialist): to check in with New OP and assist as needed with any testing questions
Customer Support: to email/fax final reports needed during downtime