Guest guest Posted December 22, 2005 Report Share Posted December 22, 2005 , Thank you so much for letting me know it is FDA approved. When I originally asked my onc about this test he was not for it since it was not FDA approved, Now I have this and will research it to give to the onc. Thanks, Love, Ingrid > > Targeted Diagnostics & Therapeutics Inc. has received FDA clearance to > market its new blood test, called GCC-B1 for the detection of > recurrent colon cancer. TDT says their new test represents a major > breakthrough because its detection mechanism finds metastatic > colorectal cancer that is often missed by other methods. The company > says that GCC-B1 can find one cancer cell in 10,000,000 normal cells > by detecting the presence of guanylyl cyclase C (GC-C), which is found > on metastatic colorectal cancer cells. > > > put in the search for GCC-B1 all kinds of words about it. sounds like > a good test to do. cost about $495.00 have to ask them for the blood > kit, take it to your Onc. to draw the blood, then send it back to them > to test. then they will send your Onc the results. tried to go to > their site, but it wasn't up. said to have it tested every 2 or 3 > months for first year, then 6 months for year and so on. Don't know > if have to order a new kit each month you have it taken. really need > to get to their site and find out more info about it. > will keep tring to find out more about it. > -hanky > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted December 23, 2005 Report Share Posted December 23, 2005 Does anyone know if the health insurance would pay for this??? Love, Ingrid > > Targeted Diagnostics & Therapeutics Inc. has received FDA clearance to > market its new blood test, called GCC-B1 for the detection of > recurrent colon cancer. TDT says their new test represents a major > breakthrough because its detection mechanism finds metastatic > colorectal cancer that is often missed by other methods. The company > says that GCC-B1 can find one cancer cell in 10,000,000 normal cells > by detecting the presence of guanylyl cyclase C (GC-C), which is found > on metastatic colorectal cancer cells. > > > put in the search for GCC-B1 all kinds of words about it. sounds like > a good test to do. cost about $495.00 have to ask them for the blood > kit, take it to your Onc. to draw the blood, then send it back to them > to test. then they will send your Onc the results. tried to go to > their site, but it wasn't up. said to have it tested every 2 or 3 > months for first year, then 6 months for year and so on. Don't know > if have to order a new kit each month you have it taken. really need > to get to their site and find out more info about it. > will keep tring to find out more about it. > -hanky > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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