Elsewhere, Celera Diagnostics, Abbott Labs and closely held Genomic Health also are pursuing prognostic gene tests for prostate cancer (and other tumors).
For targeted therapies, it would be smart to include companies that make targeted diagnostics--such as Vysis , a division of Abbott Labs (nyse: ABT - news - people ) that makes a version of the Herceptin test--from the outset.
The suburban Chicago drug and medical product giant is splitting into a medical products business that will be called AbbVie, and trade under a new ticker symbol, ABBV, while the other company will retain the Abbott name and largely be focused on medical products including devices, diagnostics and nutritional products.