Myriad’s riskScore offers personalized risk assessment for women by providing a 5-year and remaining lifetime risk based on multiple validated studies. Myriad is on the forefront of hereditary cancer testing and breast cancer risk assessment and is working diligently towards expanding accessibility to riskScore for women of all ancestries. As a known leader in genetic testing, Myriad prides itself in its pursuit of accurate, comprehensive testing to ensure superior performance and results.
Currently, riskScore is available to women with specific eligibility requirements based on pre-existing data. Concurrent with riskScore’s initial launch, Myriad has diligently sought and is actively generating data to expand riskScore eligibility to all ancestries, having presented data around our efforts as early as 2018. Myriad remains active in pursuing the necessary steps to expand well-validated risk assessment tools to as many women as possible.
In addition to offering accurate hereditary cancer test results through myRisk testing, Myriad is committed to offering the same level of precision medicine for women regardless of their ancestry. Through rigorous research, validation, and peer review, Myriad began this process several years ago, having presented our initial work as early as 2018 at the San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium.
Myriad continues to run one of the largest genome-wide association study (GWAS) for women of African descent. Given the limited data available for these populations, Myriad’s team of researchers has worked to seek out and actively generate this data over several years in order to confidently validate riskScore in as many ancestries as possible.
Myriad recognizes that there are still challenges that prevent riskScore from being validated in women of certain ancestries. In order to offer the same level of accurate breast cancer risk assessment for all women, Myriad continues to take steps to address some of these challenges.
If you have further questions about riskScore, contact your local Myriad Account Executive or Regional Medical Specialists or call 1-800-4-MYRIAD