About Precision Therapeutics
Our history
Over the years, there have been many challenges in determining the best course of therapy for an individual cancer patient. The basic problem is that patients with similar diagnoses don’t always respond to the same chemotherapy, schedule, or dose. Additionally, ineffective therapies and tumors that have no established standard of care make it difficult for cancer specialists to decide upon an appropriate course of treatment. With this in mind, a group of scientists established Precision Therapeutics in 1995, with the sole aim of developing and delivering technology that could help a physician select the appropriate chemotherapy for an individual patient—giving them an edge in the fight against cancer.

Therapy as individual as the cancers themselves Precision Therapeutics, a life-science company based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, is committed to improving outcomes of cancer patients. Known for their expertise in the science of individualizing cancer therapy through the use of a proprietary and unique live-tissue platform, Precision develops novel markers to help guide treatment decisions based on the biological processes of each individual’s cancer.
Precision’s state of the art bioinformatics combined with the analysis of the live molecular, proteomic and genomic activity of each patient’s cancer offers an innovative foundation for further development and commercialization of novel predictive markers for cancer therapy.
Precision’s first commercial test, ChemoFx®, is a proprietary drug response marker which measures an individual’s malignant tumor response to a range of standard therapeutic alternatives under consideration by a physician with the goal of optimizing patient outcomes.
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Research that leads to developments
As a leading force in research, Precision Therapeutics is committed to the development of support tools and services for individualized cancer treatment. To underscore this commitment, Precision Therapeutics has commissioned and funded multiple clinical research programs in partnership with leading medical research institutes. And we will continue to investigate methods that will facilitate the effective delivery of individualized cancer therapy—giving physicians and patients an edge in the fight against cancer.

In the lab
Precision Therapeutics’ laboratories are fully equipped to perform tissue culture-based analysis. Our laboratories have been certified to comply with the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services CLIA (Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments) program, and are licensed by the Pennsylvania Department of Health and the New York State Department of Health. Our scientific staff has extensive experience in clinical testing and cancer research and provides services to physicians throughout the United States and Canada from our headquarters in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.