Guardant Health study links liquid biopsy test to melanoma recurrence risk

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Guardant Health COSMOS Study Published in Cancer Research Communications Validates Utility of Guardant Revealâ„¢ Liquid Biopsy Test for Predicting Recurrence in Melanoma

October 5, 2026 11:27 AM EDT

First published prospective, multicenter study of Guardant Reveal in resected melanoma demonstrates 81% sensitivity for distant recurrence and 100% post-treatment specificity Molecular residual disease detection approximately four weeks after surgery was independently associated with an approximately 12-fold increased risk of recurrence and a greater than 30-fold increased risk of death

PALO ALTO, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Guardant Health, Inc. (Nasdaq: GH), a leading precision oncology company, today announced Cancer Research Communications, a journal of the American Association for Cancer Research, has published results from the COSMOS-MEL01 study... More