Veracyte Announces Multiple Decipher Urologic Testing Abstracts to be Presented at the 2023 ASCO Genitourinary (GU) Cancers Symposium

Veracyte, Inc. (Nasdaq: VCYT) today announced that six abstracts highlighting new data focused on the company's Decipher urologic cancer testing offerings will be presented at the 2023 ASCO Genitourinary (GU) Cancers Symposium, taking place in San Francisco, Calif. and online, February 16-18, 2023.

Data being presented include new insights derived from Veracyte's Decipher Genomics Resource for Intelligent Discovery (GRID) database, which suggest potential opportunities to further personalize treatment for men with prostate cancer. Additionally, researchers will present new Decipher Prostate Genomic Classifier clinical utility data from the prospective, phase 3, randomized clinical trial, G-MINOR (Genomics in Michigan ImpactiNg Observation or Radiation).

"Veracyte is committed to helping empower physicians with the insights they need to guide more informed, individualized treatment for patients with urologic cancers," said Elai Davicioni, Ph.D., Veracyte's medical director for Urology. "The data being presented at this year's ASCO GU Cancers Symposium advance our understanding of how our Decipher genomic tests and Decipher GRID database may help physicians further stratify risk and guide treatment decisions for their patients with prostate or bladder cancer."

Veracyte also expects additional data regarding the Decipher Prostate test to be highlighted in the following general session presentation:

Below are details of the abstracts that will be presented as posters at the 2023 ASCO GU Cancers Symposium in the Moscone Center in Moscone West, Level 1.

About Veracyte

Veracyte is a global diagnostics company whose vision is to transform cancer care for patients all over the world. We empower clinicians with the high-value insights they need to guide and assure patients at pivotal moments in the race to diagnose and treat cancer. Our high-performing tests enable clinicians to make more confident diagnostic, prognostic, and treatment decisions for some of the most challenging diseases such as thyroid, prostate, breast, bladder and lung cancers, as well as interstitial lung diseases. We help patients avoid unnecessary procedures and speed time to diagnosis and appropriate treatment. In addition to making our tests available in the U.S. through our central laboratories, our exclusive license to a best-in-class diagnostics instrument (the nCounter Analysis System) positions us to deliver our tests to patients worldwide through laboratories that can perform them locally. Veracyte is based in South San Francisco, California. For more information, please visit www.veracyte.com and follow the company on Twitter (@veracyte).

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