Japan’s Hirotsu Bio Science launched its test directly to consumers, where users send a urine sample through a special mail pouch to a lab
Hirotsu Bio Science chief technical officer Eric Di Luccio examines nematodes in a petri dish during a photo opportunity at the company's lab in Fujisawa, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan, on November 28, 2022. REUTERS/KIM KYUNG-HOON
Users send a urine sample through a special mail pouch to a lab, where it is put in a petri dish with a species of nematodes. The creatures, known scientifically as C. elegans, have olfactory senses much more powerful than dogs, the company says, and they follow their nose toward cancer cells. Hirotsu Bio launched its first N-NOSE consumer test in January 2020 which claimed the ability to tell if users were at high risk of cancer or not. About 300,000 people have taken the original test, with about 5%-6% getting high-risk readings.
The pancreas test kit costs up to ¥70,000 , comparatively expensive for a diagnostic test in Japan, which has a nationalised healthcare system and fixed prices for drugs and procedures. Masahiro Kami, the head of the Medical Governance Research Institute think tank in Tokyo, said that false positives could greatly outnumber actual cases of pancreatic cancer, making the results “not usable”.
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