Cymru22919 Aug 2022 16:07
Hi Cymru229,
Thank you for your kind post. Yes, i'm still here. The wife has a bit of a health issue, so not been posting much of late, but i do still try and catch up with the messages, and see what else i can find.
I was actually about to post on Wednesday evening that i was expecting news on the Arcadia front, and i'm glad i didn't now, as the timing may well have raised a few eyebrows.
That one piece of news is very good news in itself, with SGSC in talks with other pharmaceuticals to fund additional studies and bring it to the market, making us one step closer to realising the royalty payments we would be due, which would be pretty substantial in my view given that it is not just being marketed as a covid treatment, but in conjunction with diabetes, and other pulmonary issues, of which there are many conditions.
Again, i would look at who the initial beneficiaries of this treatment are (AZ) and i still maintain that at some point, they will take us over. But even better news is the success of the antibody & reporter protein. Amongst the news was the little snippet of info stating that we now have a new project primarily focusing on breast cancer. Some of you long term holders may remember i mentioned in a post quite a while back, that while watching the webinar with Dawn Coverley, that the question was asked "can this test be used to detect other forms of cancer" and that her expression was very telling. I am damn sure she knew at that point what she had, and where it could be used, and now it is confirmed.
I would also put my last penny on betting that this is not the end of the matter. Do not be surprised to find news in future telling us that the test can be used to detect colon cancer, pancreatic cancer, etc etc. It is all about the particular protein that gives the best marker for a specific cancer. And we have been told that they are "extending the range to detect other cancers" and that we are engaging other suppliers to provide further antibodies. Now, you don't do something like that unless you know what is coming!
On the China front, i would expect to see news pretty soon , given that we now have a successfully produced antibody, and the protein ready for development of the test. Something along the lines of the time of supply to China the reagents/antibodies to commence manufacture of the test kits.
More good news is the deal being made between Behnke / Cizzle / Fairjourney.
America is a massive market and since they don't have a 'free at point of use' health care system, getting a test such as ours into their market would be a major coup. I did a few "back of an envelope" sums just playing around with numbers for this market alone - number of cases, likely take up of our kit, an average price per kit, and the alternative costs to the medical insurance companies for conventional cancer detection/treatment, and the numbers are quite honestly staggering. The current Mcap would look even more of a pittance than now.