Microbix Biosystems Inc. announced that it is presenting results of Quality Assessment Products ("QAPs") for supporting the quality control ("QC") of histology and PCR-based tests driven by tissue-s samples of Head and Neck cancer caused by human papilloma virus ("HPV"). Its results presentation will be made at EUROGIN 2024, an international collaborative conference and exhibition focused upon innovations in HPV research and global cancer solutions taking place in Stockholm, Sweden from March 13 to 16, 2024. While HPV is best known for causing cancers of the cervix in women, this virus family also causes cancer in other bodily tissues.

Such further types of HPV-driven cancer include those of the "Head and Neck," collectively tumours inside and behind the nose, throughout the mouth (including the tongue, gums, and palate), all sections of the throat, and the voice box. Diagnosis of such cancers is made from tissue sample analyses that look for the presence of cancerous cells via histology and the presence of viral DNA by PCR.