Nonagen Bioscience announces CE mark for Oncuria® bladder cancer diagnostic

LOS ANGELES, June 16, 2022 /PRNewswire/— Nonagen Bioscience, a cancer diagnostics company, today announced CE marking for its Oncuria® immunoassay for bladder cancer.

Oncuria is the first-of-its-kind multiplex urine test for the quantitative detection of 10 biomarkers in urine that are associated with the presence of bladder cancer. Bladder cancer is the tenth most diagnosed cancer in the world, with approximately 573,000 newly diagnosed cases worldwide each year.¹ Bladder cancer is also highly recurrent. In fact, up to 77% of early-stage bladder tumors treated with current approaches (tumor resection and/or intravesical bacillus Calmette-Guérin [BCG] or chemotherapy) will recur.²

Oncuria now bears the CE marking and is registered under the EU In Vitro Diagnostic Directive (IVDD), EU Directive 98/79/EC, which allows Nonagen to sell the diagnostic in the European market.

"The CE mark demonstrates the quality of the Oncuria test, which reflects years of rigorous clinical development by an exceptional team," said Charles J. Rosser, MD, MBA, chief executive officer and chief medical officer at Nonagen Bioscience. "This is a significant first step on the path to the global commercialization of Oncuria."

Nonagen Bioscience is targeting a United States launch of Oncuria in the last quarter of 2022, followed soon after by a European launch of Oncuria as an IVDD. Pending US Food and Drug Administration approval, Nonagen Bioscience intends to make Oncuria available as an in vitro diagnostic.  

Oncuria has been developed for the early detection of bladder cancer in patients presenting with hematuria (blood in the urine) or with a history of bladder cancer on disease surveillance. The test is performed using Luminex® xMAP technology. It is designed to detect the concentration of 10 proteins that are associated with bladder cancer in urine samples. The data are entered into a proprietary algorithm for providing diagnostic results for bladder cancer, which can be used in conjunction with (not in lieu of) current standard diagnostic procedures. In clinical studies, Oncuria was shown to have 93% sensitivity and 93% specificity for detecting bladder cancer.³  www.nonagen.com/products

Nonagen Bioscience a privately held biotechnology company is focused on globally reducing the burden of cancer with innovative diagnostics. As a physician-led company, Nonagen Bioscience is committed to bringing to the market best-in-class, noninvasive diagnostics for cancer detection, therapy choice, and disease monitoring, so patients can live better, longer lives. is currently developing diagnostics for bladder, breast, and prostate cancers. www.nonagen.com

References: 1. Sung H, Ferlay J, Siegel RL, et al. Global cancer statistics 2020: GLOBOCAN estimates of incidence and mortality worldwide for 36 cancers in 185 countries. CA Cancer J Clin. 2021;71(3):209-249. doi:10.3322/caac.21660 2. Witjes JA. Management of BCG failures in superficial bladder cancer: a review. Eur Urol. 2006;49(5):790-797. doi:10.1016/j.eururo.2006.01.017 3. Hirasawa Y, Pagano I, Chen R, et al. Diagnostic performance of Oncuria™, a urinalysis test for bladder cancer. J Transl Med. 2021;19(1):141. doi:10.1186/s12967-021-02796-4

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