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spongiformbobsqpants

09/19/09 2:15 AM

#960 RE: OneCherAtatime #959

Wow, what would make someone with this guys expertise and background join little old HDVY. Something big is brewing here. Hope we here about it sooner rather than later.

rocketeer357

09/19/09 4:43 AM

#961 RE: OneCherAtatime #959

Thanks for your post. Look at it this way: how much is spent on PSA's every year? Whether or not they are effective is irrelevant: if you have a suspicion of prostate cancer and you can afford it, you'll get the test done. Who wouldn't? HDVY has a much, much better mouse trap than the PSA.

IMO, there's no risk for shareholders here: Quest is a monster of a company that will make sure the new HDVY test is on the mouse pads, script pads and all the other schwagg they saturate doctors with.

Degreed

09/20/09 9:57 PM

#964 RE: OneCherAtatime #959

So, why wouldn't it be used is the question Cher? Wouldn't you want to know if you had Grage 3 Prostate Cancer or BPH? One you can live with the other you can't!!! The PSA can't tell you that, many painful biopsies with a expensive price tag could, or you could pee in cup!! Which would you pick?

So, to recap. Currently you get a PSA test massaging of the prostate, if the score is high enough and you are suspected of having cancer you get painful and expensive biopsies to determine if you do or do not have cancer. What's the false negative rate on those biopsies? Over 30% and the false positive rate is over 15%!! This negates human error.

HDVY's test with Quest and Abbott is a "Pee in a cup" test with over 93% accuracy rate worlds better than PSA + Biopsy.

Which is cheaper, safer, easier, and less prone to human error? Then remember there is over 1 Million Prostate biopsies per year in the USA let alone the world. One little test can stop all of that how much revenue and how many more men would get tested if it was as easy as peeing in a cup?

Now when you factor the sheer number of PSA test and biopsies being done you can see why revenue projections go into Millions immediately!!!! This test will not only change the rules it will change the whole game!!

Here are some facts as to Prostate Cancer before you blow it off so readily.

Prostate cancer is the most common non-skin cancer in America.

• In 2006, over 232,000 men will be diagnosed with prostate cancer, and over 30,000 men will die from it.

• One new case occurs every 2.5 minutes and a man dies from prostate cancer every 17 minutes.

• After lung cancer, prostate cancer is the leading cause of cancer-related deaths among men in the U.S.

• A nonsmoking man is more likely to get prostate cancer than lung, bronchus, colon, rectal, bladder, lymphoma, melanoma, oral and kidney cancers combined.

• African-American men are 65% more likely to be diagnosed with prostate cancer than Caucasian- Americans and are more than twice as likely to die from it. The reasons for this disparity are not yet known.

• It is estimated that there are over 2 million American men currently living with prostate cancer.

• Early prostate cancer usually has no symptoms and is most commonly detected through prostate cancer screening tests such as the PSA blood test and digital rectal exam.