Groves Medical Group starts offering Stockholm3 in the UK
February 1, 2023
Groves Medical Group has started offering Stockholm3 for prostate cancer testing. This is the first UK clinic that uses Stockholm3.
Stockholm3 will be offered to men aged 45 to 74 in the South-West London area. The blood samples will be taken at the Groves Medical Centre in New Malden, London and the test analysis will be performed by A3P at its lab facility in Uppsala, Sweden. Men found to have an elevated risk for prostate cancer may be offered an MRI examination at New Malden Diagnostic Centre and referred to a urologist for further treatment if required. Groves Medical Group works closely with Sterling Health Group that offers a wide range of secondary care treatment options.
“Prostate cancer is the most common cancer in men in the UK, and about one in eight men will be diagnosed with prostate cancer in their lifetime. Early detection is of utmost importance for therapy success, but the commonly used PSA test has its shortcomings in terms of precision as it sounds off a false alarm too often, and still misses a lot of aggressive cases in need of treatment. Stockholm3 is a new more accurate test based on solid data from studies involving some 75,000 men. It has been shown to reduce overtreatment such as unnecessary biopsies by around 50 percent, and even more importantly, it finds twice as many cases of aggressive cancer compared to PSA. We are therefore very happy that we can now offer Stockholm3 to our patients to improve treatment and in the long run save lives,” says Dr. Jeremy Harris, GP & Partner of Groves Medical Group.
“We see a growing interest for Stockholm3 all over Europe. The test is now available to British men for the first time and I believe that it can play an important role in the UK for improving early detection and at the same time save costs through reducing overtreatment,” says David Rosén, CEO of A3P Biomedical.
About A3P Biomedical
A3P Biomedical is a company that specializes in advanced prostate cancer diagnostics. A3P’s main product, Stockholm3, is a clinically and commercially validated blood test for early detection and risk stratification of aggressive prostate cancer. A3P Biomedical is headquartered in Stockholm, Sweden. For more information, please visit www.a3p.com
About Stockholm3
Stockholm3 is a blood-based test, that runs a combination of protein biomarkers, genetic biomarkers and clinical information through an algorithm to find the probability of clinically significant cancer at biopsy.
Stockholm3 has been evaluated in clinical studies including more than 90,000 men. It is extensively tested in large population-based screening trials, as well as in real world clinical utility studies in primary care, as a reflex test to PSA at values 1.5-20 ng/ml. Benefits include the ability to reduce unnecessary MRIs, benign and Grade Group 1 prostate biopsies for men with elevated PSA, while simultaneously improving detection of clinically significant cancers in men with low or normal PSA values. Using Stockholm3 leads to a more accurate risk assessment than the current PSA standard. Stockholm3 detects 40-90% more men with aggressive prostate cancer and, at the same time, reduces over-detection by 40-50% compared to PSA.
Multiple Stockholm3 studies have been published in high-impact journals such as The Lancet Oncology, Journal of Clinical Oncology, and European Urology. The studies address both the specificity and sensitivity of Stockholm3 in multi-ethnic populations as well as health-economic benefits of implementing it in clinical care. For more information about our clinical studies please visit www.a3p.com.
About prostate cancer
Prostate cancer is the most common cancer in men. In 2020, the global incidence of new prostate cancer cases was 1.4 million, and prostate cancer specific mortality 370,000. Global prostate cancer incidence and mortality is expected to rise by 100% and 85% respectively by 2040, driven by an ageing population.
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