Products

4Kscore™ Prostate Cancer Test

4Kscore™ is a next-generation prostate cancer test

  • Based on the following panel of kallikrein markers:
    • Total PSA
    • Free PSA
    • Intact PSA
    • Human Kallikrein 2 (HK2)
  • Enabling IP exclusively licensed from Arctic Partners (Finland)
  • In May 2012, OPKO licensed to International Health Technology, Ltd. (Cambridge, England), the right to offer 4Kscore™’s panel of novel kallikrein biomarkers in laboratory settings in the U.K., Ireland, Sweden, and Denmark.
  • In October 2012, IHT launched 4Kscore™ in Europe, where the panel was recently featured in U.K. media.
  • OPKO is developing a point-of-care version of the 4Kscore™ biomarker panel.

Predicts indolent versus aggressive prostate cancer

  • A panel combining our PSA test and our novel kallikrein markers could create a diagnostic test able to accurately predict prostate cancer-positive biopsies

Could lead to a 50% decrease in unnecessary prostate biopsies

  • 750,000 unnecessary prostate biopsies are performed annually in the US

Kallikrein markers have been tested in over 10,000 patients: