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Devices · Cancer Genetics, Inc.

Tissue of Origin Test Kit-FFPE

510(k)K173839Clinical ToxcicologyOIW

Cancer Genetics, Inc. is listed for Tissue of Origin Test Kit-FFPE (K173839). The FDA list gives March 15, 2018 as the date of the final decision. The lead panel is Clinical Toxcicology, and the database link on the FDA list is the 510(k) pathway. openFDA describes product code OIW as “Software, Similarity Score Algorithm, Tissue Of Origin For Malignant Tumor Types”: This test is intended to measure the degree of similarity between the RNA expression pattern in a patient?s fresh-frozen tumor and the RNA expression patterns in a database of tumor samples for some common malignant tumor types that were diagnosed according to then current clinical and pathological practice. The test result is intended for use in the context of the patient?s clinical history and other diagnostic tests evaluated by a qualified clinician. The test is not intended to establish the origin of tumors (e.g. carcinoma of unknown primary) that cannot be diagnosed according to current clinical and pathological practice. openFDA records this submission’s decision description as “Substantially Equivalent.” This paragraph is assembled only from those public fields. It is not an FDA review, not a determination of safety or effectiveness, and not medical advice. Official record: https://www.accessdata.fda.gov/scripts/cdrh/cfdocs/cfPMN/pmn.cfm?ID=K173839

Official FDA database record

Date of final decision
March 15, 2018
Company on the FDA list
Cancer Genetics, Inc.
Lead panel
Clinical Toxcicology
Primary product code
OIW
openFDA device name for the code
Software, Similarity Score Algorithm, Tissue Of Origin For Malignant Tumor Types
Device class
2
Regulation number
862.3100
openFDA decision description
Substantially Equivalent
openFDA decision code
SESE
Statement or summary label
Summary

Product-code text from openFDA

This test is intended to measure the degree of similarity between the RNA expression pattern in a patient?s fresh-frozen tumor and the RNA expression patterns in a database of tumor samples for some common malignant tumor types that were diagnosed according to then current clinical and pathological practice. The test result is intended for use in the context of the patient?s clinical history and other diagnostic tests evaluated by a qualified clinician. The test is not intended to establish the origin of tumors (e.g. carcinoma of unknown primary) that cannot be diagnosed according to current clinical and pathological practice.