RlapsRisk® BC

Assess the risk of breast cancer relapse

RlapsRisk® BC is an AI diagnostic to help pathologists and oncologists determine the right treatment pathway for early breast cancer patients
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Clinical context

Revolutionize breast cancer care management by democratizing access to actionable medical insights

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Incidence is high. Every 14 seconds, across the globe, a woman is diagnosed with breast cancer. 2
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Since 2008, worldwide breast cancer incidence has increased by more than 20 percent. 2
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Approximately 10% of all patients will relapse after their initial treatment each year. 3

Clinicians lack the tools to identify these high-risk patients at an early stage. Current methods either lack consistency in accuracy 4,5,6 or they are expensive and non-routine, 7 such as genomic sequencing.

RlapsRisk® BC

Our research shows accurate discrimination between high and low risk of relapse 1

Testing
Testing

Suitable for adults with primary invasive breast cancer (ER+/HER2-)

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Cumulative sensitivity

Cumulative sensitivity is greater than the one obtained by the clinical score alone 1

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Dynamic specificity

Achieves 76% dynamic specificity at 5 years 1

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Digital pathology

Intended to work with surgically resected tissue on digitized slides

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PDF report

Delivered as a PDF report with intuitive design

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Workflow agnostic

Deployment is feasible across IMS systems, or even a shared directory

Therapeutic and pathologist workflow

Integrating AI-powered diagnostics seamlessly

Due to variability across pathology labs, workflows may vary by institutions and disease indications.

Subtype confirmed

ER+/HER2- invasive carcinoma of the breast

Surgery

Tumor excision

Pathologist

Selects slide of indication

WSI Review

Analysis of digitized slide

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RlapsRisk BC

PDF report

Pathologist

Delivers final pathology report

Multidisciplinary board

Further testing / treatment decision

“Thanks to the solution we now have a better understanding of the underlying mechanism of highly aggressive tumors and the treatment needs for these patients. Identifying very high-risk patients earlier will enable us to adjust the therapeutic strategy for more favorable patient outcomes.”
Professor Fabrice André, MD, PhD
Director of Research, Gustave Roussy
Incoming President of ESMO

Research and development

Timeline of milestones

Owkin wins the AI for Health challenge
2019
Owkin wins the AI for Health challenge
First model trained
2020
First model trained
Abstract presented at ESMO Congress, Switzerland
2021
Abstract presented at ESMO Congress, Switzerland
Abstract presented at USCAP
2022
Abstract presented at USCAP
Abstract presented at ESMO
2022
Abstract presented at ESMO
2019
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Trained with data from a fruitful partnership with Gustave Roussy

Based on 1800 breast cancer patients (incl. 1480 HER2-/HR+)

Digitized HES slides
Digitized HES slides
Demographic variables
Demographic variables
Five years follow-up
Five years follow-up
Disease variables
Disease variables
Time-dependent AUC
Time-dependent AUC

Clinical score: 0.772

AI model: 0.77

AI model integrating clinical score: 0.822

Image AI analysis outperforms clinical scores

RlapsRisk® BC combined with a clinical score composed of standard clinicopathological criteria achieves 76% cumulative sensitivity and 76% dynamic specificity at 5 years. 1
In comparison, the clinical score alone achieves a cumulative sensitivity of 61%, for the same specificity. RlapsRisk® BC can identify 15% more patients who will likely relapse through classifying them as high risk at the time of diagnosis. 1

Cumulative Sensitivity/Dynamic Specificity are natural extensions of sensitivity/specificity to the setting of time-to-event outcomes, such as the metastasis-free survival (MFS), understood as the time to distant relapse occurrence from initial surgery. In use here, as they easily accommodate time-dependent outcome status as well as right-censoring.

The clinical score is composed of the following variables: histological grade, age at diagnostic, tumor size, lymph nodes invasion, and Ki67 expression.

Citations
  1. Manuscript under review with peer reviewed journal, and available as a pre-print on bioRxiv: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/ 10.1101/2022.11.28.518158v2.full
    Performances are combined score of clinical scores and RlapsRIsk® BC.
  2. https://www.bcrf.org/breast-cancer-statistics-and-resources/
  3. Long-term hazard of recurrence in HER2+ breast cancer patients untreated with anti-HER2 therapy, Strasser-Weippl et al. 2015, BMC
  4. Gown AM. Current issues in ER and HER2 testing by IHC in breast cancer. Mod Pathol. 2008 May;21 Suppl 2:S8-S15. doi: 10.1038/modpathol.2008.34. PMID: 18437174.
  5. Casterá C, Bernet L. HER2 immunohistochemistry inter-observer reproducibility in 205 cases of invasive breast carcinoma additionally tested by ISH. Ann Diagn Pathol. 2020 Apr;45:151451. doi: 10.1016/j.anndiagpath.2019.151451. Epub 2019 Dec 17. PMID: 31955049.
  6. Polley MY, Leung SC, McShane LM, et al. An international Ki67 reproducibility study. J Natl Cancer Inst. 2013 Dec 18;105(24):1897-906. doi: 10.1093/jnci/djt306.
  7. Blok EJ, Bastiaannet E, van den Hout WB, et al. Systematic review of the clinical and economic value of gene expression profiles for invasive early breast cancer available in Europe. Cancer Treat Rev. 2018 Jan;62:74-90. doi: 10.1016/j.ctrv.2017.10.012.
The device is currently under development, and not for clinical use. Please contact Owkin for more information. Images shown may represent the range of products, or be for illustration purposes only, and may not be an exact representation of the product.
Manufacturer: Owkin France. RlapsRisk® BC is a trademark of Owkin Inc. European Patent Application No. EP21306284.7 / International Application No. PCT/US2022/043692
Information updated on 27th November 2023 - Version W002V1