Colorectal Cancer Alliance and Perthera Partner to Deliver Precision Treatment Options to Improve Patient Survival

The national nonprofit Colorectal Cancer Alliance (the Alliance) and Perthera, a precision oncology outcomes market leader, have partnered to provide molecular profiling with personalized treatment recommendations to improve patient outcomes. Together the organizations will enroll 500 patients in a clinical study to demonstrate the impact of precision oncology on colorectal cancer treatment, with a targeted focus on underserved populations who have lower access to high-quality care.

“The Alliance is committed to bringing innovation to our community as quickly as possible, with the number one goal of saving lives,” said Michael Sapienza, CEO of the Alliance. “Our Personalized Treatment Program, powered by Perthera’s Precision Oncology Platform, uses artificial intelligence to match patients with treatment options that will work best against their specific tumor. This is the same type of matching completed at world-class medical institutions, but our patients will receive it at no cost, no matter where they live.”

All patients who have had or will soon get biomarker testing can enroll, regardless of their location. If a patient has not been tested, Perthera’s clinical team will coordinate testing so the patient can enroll.

Once enrolled, patients and their care teams will receive life-saving resources, including Perthera’s precisely matched treatment recommendations proven to increase survival, clinical trial matching shown to increase enrollment at five times the national average and the Alliance’s extensive patient support and navigation resources. This program further aims to capture and publish improved patient outcomes to advance medicine and science for patients now and in the future.

“We are thrilled to be launching this program with the Alliance, the leading patient advocacy organization dedicated to serving colorectal cancer patients and advancing high-quality cancer care, by driving our united campaign with and for patients across the country,” said Gary Gregory, CEO of Perthera. “We will build on the Alliance’s powerful efforts to significantly improve overall and progression-free survival rates and use real-world evidence to advance medical research. Working with the Alliance, we are enrolling physicians and patients across the U.S. in a distributed clinical study and improving patient outcomes, including those audiences with historically lower access to precision medicine.”

Colorectal cancer is the second leading cause of cancer-related deaths in the U.S. and the fourth most common cancer impacting both men and women. With the combined strength of these organizations, this collaborative program will dramatically impact this major form of cancer and create innovative solutions.

For More Information

To learn more about the program and how it is delivering the most comprehensive cancer care, please visit: https://www.ccalliance.org/patient-family-support/personalized-treatment-program

To learn more about Perthera’s Precision Oncology Platform and how it is proven to advance patient outcomes, please contact us at: Hope@Perthera.com or (833) 781-7810.

About the Colorectal Cancer Alliance

The Colorectal Cancer Alliance is a national nonprofit committed to ending colorectal cancer. Working with our nation of passionate allies, we diligently support the needs of patients and families, caregivers, and survivors; eagerly raise awareness of preventive screening; and continually strive to fund critical research. As allies in the struggle, we are fiercely determined to end colorectal cancer within our lifetime. For more information, visit ccalliance.org.

About Perthera

Perthera is the leading Precision Oncology Company advancing cancer care through our Precision Medicine Platform. Our innovative technology precisely matches cancer patients with ranked treatment recommendations and has been utilized by over 250 US healthcare sites and by more than 10% of all oncologists. We have developed a turnkey Precision Oncology Platform with an AI-driven Intelligence Engine, which has been clinically proven to extend cancer patients’ overall survival rates by over a year and progression-free survival rates by a factor of 2.4X. Perthera positions hospitals and physicians to deliver best-in-class cancer care to improve patient outcomes and save lives without altering their current clinical practices, patient flow or lab preferences. The Perthera Platform also offers a highly comprehensive Precision Cancer Database and well-curated Real-World-Data, which delivers significant value to BioPharma (Pharma, BioTech, Drug Development, and Clinical Research Organizations). For more information, visit Perthera.com. Follow Perthera on Twitter, LinkedIn and Facebook.