Myriad Receives Reimbursement for the BRACAnalysis® Diagnostic System in Japan for Patients with Breast or Ovarian Cancer Associated with HBOC

SALT LAKE CITY, April 06, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- , Inc. (NASDAQ: MYGN), a leader in molecular diagnostics and precision medicine, announced that it has received reimbursement and launched the BRACAnalysis^® Diagnostic System (i.e., “BRACAnalysis”) in Japan to help physicians determine which people affected with breast and ovarian cancer have Hereditary Breast and Ovarian Cancer (HBOC) syndrome and qualify for additional diagnostic and medical management.  BRACAnalysis previously was approved by Japan’s Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare (MHLW) in November 2019 for this indication.

“We are excited that the BRACAnalysis Diagnostic System is now available to assess HBOC risk in people with breast and ovarian cancer,” said Seigo Nakamura, M.D., Ph.D., Professor and Chairman, Department of Surgery, Division of Breast Surgical Oncology and Director, Breast Center of Showa University Hospital in Tokyo and president of the Japanese Organization of Hereditary Breast and Ovarian Cancer (JOHBOC).  “Our goal is to use the BRACAnalysis test to identify patients with BRCA mutations who may need more advanced diagnostic and medical care.”

Effective immediately, physicians can order the BRACAnalysis test for affected patients who meet the genetic testing criteria defined by JOHBOC including:

1. Presence of BRCA1 or BRCA2 pathogenic mutations in family members.
2. Individual has breast cancer and meets any of the following:
   • Breast cancer under 45,
   • Triple-negative breast cancer aged 60 or younger,
   • Two or more primary breast cancers,
   • One or more third-degree relatives with breast or ovarian cancer.

3. Individual has ovarian, fallopian tube, and peritoneal cancers.
4. Male breast cancer.
5. Tumor tissue profiling tests that suggest retention of BRCA1 or BRCA2 germline pathogenic mutation if cancer eligibility criteria for companion diagnosis for PARP inhibitor are met.

Myriad estimates that more than 25,000 people in Japan currently meet the testing criteria, and the company has partnered with SRL Inc., a subsidiary of Miraca Group, to commercialize the BRACAnalysis Diagnostic System in Japan. 

“BRACAnalysis is the gold standard for germline BRCA1 and BRCA2 testing worldwide,” said Raymond Francot, executive vice president of International Operations, Myriad Genetics.  “We are excited to collaborate with our commercial partners to ensure that BRACAnalysis is widely accessible to patients in Japan.” 

Today’s announcement follows two prior regulatory approvals for the BRACAnalysis Diagnostic System in Japan.  In February 2019, BRACAnalysis was approved as a companion diagnostic for Lynparza^® (olaparib) in women with ovarian cancer, and in March 2018, it was approved as a companion diagnostic for Lynparza in patients with metastatic inoperable or recurrent breast cancer. 

About the BRACAnalysis^® Diagnostic System

BRACAnalysis is a diagnostic system that classifies a patient’s clinically significant variants (DNA sequence variations) in the germline BRCA1 and BRCA2 genes.  Variants are classified into one of the five categories; “Deleterious,” “Suspected Deleterious,” “Variant of Uncertain Significance,” “Favor Polymorphism,” or “Polymorphism.” Once the classification is completed, the results are sent to medical personnel in Japan for determining diagnostic and therapeutic patient management decisions. 

About SRL

Since the establishment in 1970, SRL, Inc., a member of the Miraca Group, Japan-based leading healthcare group, has been providing comprehensive testing services as the largest commercial clinical laboratory in Japan.  SRL carries out nearly 400,000,000 tests per year, covering a wide range of testing services including general/emergency testing, esoteric/research testing, companion diagnostics tests, genomic analysis, and etc. For more information, please visit .

About Myriad Genetics

Myriad Genetics Inc., is a leading precision medicine company dedicated to being a trusted advisor transforming patient lives worldwide with pioneering molecular diagnostics.  Myriad discovers and commercializes molecular diagnostic tests that: determine the risk of developing disease, accurately diagnose disease, assess the risk of disease progression, and guide treatment decisions across six major medical specialties where molecular diagnostics can significantly improve patient care and lower healthcare costs.  Myriad is focused on five critical success factors:  building upon a solid hereditary cancer foundation, growing new product volume, expanding reimbursement coverage for new products, increasing RNA kit revenue internationally and improving profitability with Elevate 2020.  For more information on how Myriad is making a difference, please visit the Company's website: .

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This press release contains “forward-looking statements” within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, including statements relating to the company’s BRACAnalysis Diagnostic System to identify patients with breast cancer who would be eligible for additional diagnostic and medical management; the Company working with commercial partners in Japan to ensure that BRACAnalysis is accessible to patients; and the Company's strategic directives under the caption "About Myriad Genetics."  These "forward-looking statements" are based on management's current expectations of future events and are subject to a number of risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially and adversely from those set forth in or implied by forward-looking statements.  These risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to: uncertainties associated with COVID-19, including its possible effects on our operations and the demand for our products and services; our ability to efficiently and flexibly manage our business amid uncertainties related to COVID-19; the risk that sales and profit margins of our molecular diagnostic tests and pharmaceutical and clinical services may decline; risks related to our ability to transition from our existing product portfolio to our new tests, including unexpected costs and delays; risks related to decisions or changes in governmental or private insurers’ reimbursement levels for our tests or our ability to obtain reimbursement for our new tests at comparable levels to our existing tests; risks related to increased competition and the development of new competing tests and services; the risk that we may be unable to develop or achieve commercial success for additional molecular diagnostic tests and pharmaceutical and clinical services in a timely manner, or at all; the risk that we may not successfully develop new markets for our molecular diagnostic tests and pharmaceutical and clinical services, including our ability to successfully generate revenue outside the United States; the risk that licenses to the technology underlying our molecular diagnostic tests and pharmaceutical and clinical services and any future tests and services are terminated or cannot be maintained on satisfactory terms; risks related to delays or other problems with operating our laboratory testing facilities and our healthcare clinic; risks related to public concern over genetic testing in general or our tests in particular; risks related to regulatory requirements or enforcement in the United States and foreign countries and changes in the structure of the healthcare system or healthcare payment systems; risks related to our ability to obtain new corporate collaborations or licenses and acquire new technologies or businesses on satisfactory terms, if at all; risks related to our ability to successfully integrate and derive benefits from any technologies or businesses that we license or acquire; risks related to our projections about our business, results of operations and financial condition; risks related to the potential market opportunity for our products and services; the risk that we or our licensors may be unable to protect or that third parties will infringe the proprietary technologies underlying our tests; the risk of patent-infringement claims or challenges to the validity of our patents or other intellectual property; risks related to changes in intellectual property laws covering our molecular diagnostic tests and pharmaceutical and clinical services and patents or enforcement in the United States and foreign countries, such as the Supreme Court decisions in Mayo Collab. Servs. v. Prometheus Labs., Inc., 566 U.S. 66 (2012), Ass’n for Molecular Pathology v. Myriad Genetics, Inc., 569 U.S. 576 (2013), and Alice Corp. v. CLS Bank Int’l, 573 U.S. 208 (2014); risks of new, changing and competitive technologies and regulations in the United States and internationally; the risk that we may be unable to comply with financial operating covenants under our credit or lending agreements;  the risk that we will be unable to pay, when due, amounts due under our credit or lending agreements; and other factors discussed under the heading "Risk Factors" contained in Item 1A of our most recent Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended June 30, 2019, which has been filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission, as well as any updates to those risk factors filed from time to time in our Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q or Current Reports on Form 8-K.  All information in this press release is as of the date of the release, and Myriad undertakes no duty to update this information unless required by law.