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Biotech / Medical : BSD Medical (Long Term Investment Oriented) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: pleonastic who wrote (14)	10/25/2012 3:29:57 PM
From: geoffrey Wren	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 178

Pleo: I find nothing odd in the idea of treating cancer with heat. The concept seems sound to me. I am aware they have done something similar in concentrating radiation at a certain source (e.g., prostate) from different directions. This heat system seems better in concept, assuming that the tissues that are heated a little (far from the tumor) or heated a fair amount (closer to the tumor) are not permanently affected by the heat. I do have to wonder about that, since the theory on cell phones is that the radio waves are heating brain cells just a little and causing bad events long term. And at a miniscule market cap, BSDM would do quite well if it got even a small chunk of the money being spent on cancer therapy. So, let me ask some basic questions. 1. Have there been side effects from the treatment? 2. What is the expected cost for a course of treatment? 3. What cancers has it been tested on successfully/unsuccessfully? 4. Does the treatment provide cures, or does it provide improvement in life expectancy only? 5. Assuming good test results, how long until the treatment is available and covered by Medicare? 6. What is the risk of running out of money (bk) or having dilutions before then? How many dilutions? 7. How high is the moat? The idea of using heat is not patentable I assume. So how hard would it be for GE or someone else to jump in the game and develop a competing system. 8. Are cancer cells more susceptible to heat than normal cells? 9. IS BSDM working now on better systems itself? 10. What about alternate systems of accomplishing the same? Seems to me that I have heard of research to introduce silver or gold molecules selectively into cancer cells and then use the molecules to highten heat treatments. Or maybe my memory is off on that. 11. Why not wait a year to buy, if one is figuring to buy? (I ask this, because even with story stocks that come through, often one sits on dead money for years, or suffers through dilutions, waiting for the stock to become popular). Lots of questions. You can skip some or all of them as you choose. Sincerely, GTW