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StephN · 12-13-2005, 06:04 PM

Hi AA -
No apology necessary!
Great to see you today and let you have a look around my "home away from home" at my cancer center.
There is more than one company out there with a HER2 serum test. But I do not know the particulars on the one not put out by Bayer.

The main thing to know is that the Bayer test is currently approved by the FDA (Big Brother AGAIN!) for metastatic patients, which is why Christine could have it so easily. The powers that be at Bayer are trying to get it into more general use, and have the two-pronged approach of networking with the patient advocate groups as well as the onclogical community by presenting some new or updated data to them.

From what I saw this is an accurate test and was impressed by the fact that these people also developed the CEA, CA27-29, PSA and other important marker tests.

12-13-2005, 06:04 PM	#16
StephN Senior Member Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Misty woods of WA State Posts: 4,128	Yes - two HER2 serum tests Hi AA - No apology necessary! Great to see you today and let you have a look around my "home away from home" at my cancer center. There is more than one company out there with a HER2 serum test. But I do not know the particulars on the one not put out by Bayer. The main thing to know is that the Bayer test is currently approved by the FDA (Big Brother AGAIN!) for metastatic patients, which is why Christine could have it so easily. The powers that be at Bayer are trying to get it into more general use, and have the two-pronged approach of networking with the patient advocate groups as well as the onclogical community by presenting some new or updated data to them. From what I saw this is an accurate test and was impressed by the fact that these people also developed the CEA, CA27-29, PSA and other important marker tests.