One Million Solutions in Health Announces NIH Licensing Opportunity: Diagnostic to Manage Benign vs. Malignant Adrenal Tumours with 100% Negative Predictive Certainty
BOSTON (PRWEB) January 31, 2018 -- One Million Solutions in Health announces an opportunity to license science from the NIH which will revolutionize the management of benign versus malignant adrenal tumours since this diagnostic permits both physicians and surgeons to have results which produce 100% negative predictive certainty.
One Million Solutions in Health has partnered with the United States' National Institutes of Health Office of Technology Transfer (NIH-OTT) and the National Cancer Institute Technology Transfer Center (NCI-TTC) and is seeking to spread awareness of NIH technologies and advances.
In this One Million Solutions in Health webinar entitled “NIH Licensing Opportunity: Diagnostic to Manage Benign vs. Malignant Adrenal Tumors with 100% Negative Predictive Certainty" end users are provided with the opportunity to acquire knowledge about the latest science and technology directly from NIH scientists themselves. Users can also take part in One Million Solutions in Health's exclusive Signature Square process where they are able to assess the innovation, make inquiries and give open feedback to the scientists.
Out of the 80 million CT scans that are performed every year in the United States, the ordering physician unintentionally discovers what could be an adrenal tumour up to 1.6 million times. What we really want to know, of course, is whether the tumour is malignant or benign?
Patients and their surgeon will be able to avoid the current invasive diagnostic procedures thanks to this new diagnostic. This is significant since current symptomatic testing isn't typically accurate. It is also important to note that many patients undergo surgery to ensure the tumour is not malignant; however, such a surgery can be deemed unnecessary and unreliable as the current pathology assessment is usually not definitive.
The One Million Solutions in Health webinar features Dr. Kebebew who has created three biomarker-based methods that precisely and reproducibly anticipate which adrenal tumours are not threatening, with 100% negative predictive certainty.
This webinar presents the opportunity to license this groundbreaking technology or to cooperate in its further advancement. At present, amongst the three biomarker-based analytic tests, there is the potential for testing for adrenal cancer in urine, blood and tissue.
This bio-marker based diagnostic test can also be used distinctly as a companion diagnostic. An oncologist can recognize if a specific therapeutic treatment is working by examining the viability of any treatment. These treatments can be evaluated by determining the biomarker concentrations. This analytic biomarker-based test will allow for the monitoring of a patient's progress, which can then be further monitored by re-testing on a periodic basis: annually or bi-annually.
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Dawn Van Dam
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Dawn Van Dam, One Million Solutions in Health, http://www.onemillionsolutionsinhealth.org/, +1 416-402-8274, [email protected]
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