Any evidence of this price other than the Sienna press release, considering your a stickler for doing independent research?
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Any evidence of this price other than the Sienna press release, considering your a stickler for doing independent research?
Balance me old china plate. mdc has had the curtacy of posting direct links to companies he is talking about. How come you never post direct links to the wealth of knowledge you base your accusations on. Pointing mdc to post#13788 is a bit vague to me. How about a direct web link to the FDA filing you refer to.
So your citing your own post that says because I say so? Sorry balance but all I can find is Sienna's own press release saying that the cost will be not more than $150USD without any specifics.
Does it include interpretation fees from that lab running the test? is a practitioner going to request a cytology workup and ask, "just run the Sierra test please" no other checks required? I doubt it, they will check pH, traces of blood, etc.
cytology is not just a single stain and yes or no answer. It requires interpretation and usually additional tests to fill in the picture. Which costs $$
Thanks Tsuba but that is not the aim of this forum or me. All I want to see is some constructive discussion but if people are going to make statements then they need to back them up and be open to contradicting views, you cannot just say look at my last post were I said 'such and such' is the case and because I have now said it twice its fact.
Personally I don't see Sienna as a threat yet. However I cannot find any evidence of there test Specificity/Sens and PPV? What I may need to look for is how a cytology test at lab is improved with the addition!! of this test. Does cytology then prove to be as good or better than CXbladder Detect??
Currently trawling through the BioMedCentral test comparison that was recently published to see if it used any sienna tests (don't think it did?) http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2288/15/45
On a side note I would be very surprised (in the land of the free) if an FDA filing and approval requires a "fixed price to customer" as part of there submission?? I would expect just test validity and safety, but hey, I have never been involved in one.
http://www.lifescientist.com.au/cont...h-fda-34928942
LOL - Cost-wise, whatever applies to Sienna applies equally to PEB. Difference is PEB was stating US$300 to US$500 a test vs Sienna's US$150 per test.
Sienna uses a low cost JV business model, PEB uses a high cost vertical integrated model.