Colorectal cancer is the #2 killer of Americans over the age of 50.
It killed Katie Couric's husband at age 42.
You need to go see a gastrointestinal doctor and get a colonoscopy.
You will be sedated, so it won't be that big of a deal. However, you have to drink 8 ounces of this liquid "cleaning" agent every 10 minutes for nearly 2 hours in order to clean yourself out so that the colo procedure has a good chance at identifying colorectal cancer, or pre-cancerous lesions. That part, and recovering after the sedation with all of the nausea is the worst part.
Interesting to note, Exact Sciences (EXAS) is a publicly traded company on the Nasdaq trading at $3.76 that is working on a non-invasive colorectal cancer screening test that uses 3 DNA markers to identify colorectal cancer, and precancerous lesions. Their Validation Study is about to begin, but management is on record as indicating that there will be an 85% sensitivity towards detecting CRC. They have an extensive patent portfolio, and their methylated vimentin DNA marker has a patent on it till 2024.
A new management team was brought in 11 months ago by the Board to make this happen. They were head of a company called Third Wave Technology that developed and gained FDA approval for a cervical cancer test (HPV). The company was acquired by Hologic for $568 million dollars, one year before FDA approval of its screening test.
So instead of getting screened for a very INVASIVE procedure like a Colo... you simply have a small 8 gram piece of your stool sent to the lab in a 50 ml test tube once every 3 years... should you test positive, THEN you go get the colo, which runs $1800.00 and usually keeps you out of work for a full day.
This is a $1.2 BILLION DOLLAR MARKET PLACE in the US!
Anyone interested in Exact Sciences should go to their website and check out the presentation by the CEO at the Piper Jaffray Healthcare Conference back on December 5th. You can find it in their Investor Relations section of their website. Only takes about 15 minutes to listen to.
Very informative.
http://exactsciences.com/
Please conduct your own due-diligence.
It killed Katie Couric's husband at age 42.
You need to go see a gastrointestinal doctor and get a colonoscopy.
You will be sedated, so it won't be that big of a deal. However, you have to drink 8 ounces of this liquid "cleaning" agent every 10 minutes for nearly 2 hours in order to clean yourself out so that the colo procedure has a good chance at identifying colorectal cancer, or pre-cancerous lesions. That part, and recovering after the sedation with all of the nausea is the worst part.
Interesting to note, Exact Sciences (EXAS) is a publicly traded company on the Nasdaq trading at $3.76 that is working on a non-invasive colorectal cancer screening test that uses 3 DNA markers to identify colorectal cancer, and precancerous lesions. Their Validation Study is about to begin, but management is on record as indicating that there will be an 85% sensitivity towards detecting CRC. They have an extensive patent portfolio, and their methylated vimentin DNA marker has a patent on it till 2024.
A new management team was brought in 11 months ago by the Board to make this happen. They were head of a company called Third Wave Technology that developed and gained FDA approval for a cervical cancer test (HPV). The company was acquired by Hologic for $568 million dollars, one year before FDA approval of its screening test.
So instead of getting screened for a very INVASIVE procedure like a Colo... you simply have a small 8 gram piece of your stool sent to the lab in a 50 ml test tube once every 3 years... should you test positive, THEN you go get the colo, which runs $1800.00 and usually keeps you out of work for a full day.
This is a $1.2 BILLION DOLLAR MARKET PLACE in the US!
Anyone interested in Exact Sciences should go to their website and check out the presentation by the CEO at the Piper Jaffray Healthcare Conference back on December 5th. You can find it in their Investor Relations section of their website. Only takes about 15 minutes to listen to.
Very informative.
http://exactsciences.com/
Please conduct your own due-diligence.
