{"id":19,"date":"2018-02-06T10:39:22","date_gmt":"2018-02-06T10:39:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/metaguidex.com\/?page_id=19"},"modified":"2024-07-03T08:25:05","modified_gmt":"2024-07-03T08:25:05","slug":"home","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/metaguidex.com\/","title":{"rendered":"Developing New Cancer Diagnostics and Therapeutics, Giving Novel Insights to Early Cancer Diagnosis"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"19\" class=\"elementor elementor-19\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-820c5d3 elementor-section-stretched elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"820c5d3\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-settings=\"{&quot;stretch_section&quot;:&quot;section-stretched&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-b474461\" data-id=\"b474461\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-7d4ecd5 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"7d4ecd5\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; color: #222222; line-height: 12.65pt; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"><strong>Breast cancer affects &gt; 2 million patients every year, globally. The management of this disease is inadequate. <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">In particular, we need better ways to:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 1rem; color: #ffffff;\">Detect whether cancer is present and metastasis (deadly spread of cancer to other parts of the body) has occurred<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-size: 1rem; color: #ffffff;\">Predict whether metastasis will occur in future<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-size: 1rem; color: #ffffff;\">Assess whether therapy is working well<\/span><br \/><span style=\"font-size: 1rem; color: #ffffff;\">Detect the return of the tumour more quickly<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; color: #222222; line-height: 12.65pt; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"><b>Through our research into breast cancer metastasis we have discovered a protein present only in metastatic tumours.<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; color: #222222; line-height: 12.65pt; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"><b>This innovative biological marker could be used to tell doctors about the metastatic status of a tumour.<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; color: #222222; line-height: 12.65pt; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"><b>We have turned this discovery into a diagnostic test, which we call MetaGuideX. This test can be performed on the tumour itself, or on fragments of the cancer cells released into the bloodstream. The test meets an unmet clinical need, and can be used at the point of diagnosis, during treatment (to see if the therapy is effective) and during remission (to see if the tumour has returned).<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 10pt; color: #222222; line-height: 12.65pt; background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\"><b>We have been awarded over 500\u00a3K in non-dilutive funding to date as a new spinout company in Oxford. For this, we have IP on a novel diagnostic and metastatic blocker. Watch this space!\u00a0<\/b><\/span><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-1594d21 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"1594d21\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-5624f1d\" data-id=\"5624f1d\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-2fbfd8d elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"2fbfd8d\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<h6 style=\"text-align: center;\">info@metaguidex.com<\/h6>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 Breast cancer affects &gt; 2 million patients every year, globally. The management of this disease is inadequate. 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