good-pal: rather than playing the game of trying to guess sensitivity/specificity and trying to gauge abbott's expectations from one general sentence in the p.r, look at it like this. there are two big pieces of evidence that abbott views RECAF as a VERY REAL COMMERCIAL OPPORTUNITY:
1) in my estimation they have spent around $1 mil already on RECAF between due diligence (G*D knows there was a lot considering BOCX's messy past), legal, blind sample testing (expensive!), ARCHITECT integration, and the $250k upfront. they are investing time, money and resources!
2) if you look through Abbott's p.r archive they do not sign a lot of these licensing deals. that alone says a hell of a lot to the crowd that thinks abbott goes around signing ldm deals with all these dozens of cancer marker companies touting their goods (ie and bocx is just lost in the crowd)