Biotech Values

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Yes, incentives are used all the time to expedite enrollment. The rationale in this instance is that finding patients >65 who have not had a colonoscopy in the past 9 years is difficult. The reason for wanting the older patients has to do with the markers that detect methylation status. In previous versions of the test methylation assays failed because they were detecting age-related changes and not cancer related changes.