Millennium Healthcare Working to Help Prevent Oral Cancers With the OralCDx Brush Biopsy Test

GARDEN CITY, N.Y., June 25, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- Millennium HealthCare Inc. (MHCC) through its subsidiary, Millennium Medical Devices LLC, has an exclusive agreement with CDx Diagnostics to distribute its OralCDx brush biopsy test kit. OralCDx is a non-invasive test that is used to test dysplasia (the small white and red tissue spots commonly found in the mouth) to rule out precancerous change. The test has previously been available to dentists nationwide, and has already resulted in the prevention of thousands of oral cancers. Through this exclusive collaboration, Primary Care Physicians will be able to administer this test to their patients. 

OralCDx testing administered by dentists has already resulted in the early detection of well over 10,000 pre-cancers while still potentially harmless with proper follow-up and treatment. Through Millennium's strategy of making this test available through primary care physicians, nurse practitioners and physician's assistants, many more patients can have access to such preventative testing which could result in many more lives potentially being saved. With over 12 years of oral cancer prevention research and data from hundreds of thousands of US patients, along with the addition of molecular biomarkers to the CDx laboratory analysis, the timing in offering this potentially lifesaving test to primary care physicians and their patients could not be better.

Oral cancer claims about as many American lives as melanoma, approximately twice as many as cervical cancer, and is estimated as being as common as all major forms of leukemia combined. For reasons that are not completely understood yet, this disease is also now rising among the former low risk groups of women, young people and non-smokers.

According to the Oral Cancer Foundation, close to 42,000 Americans will be diagnosed with oral and oropharyngeal cancer this year. The disease will cause over 8,000 deaths, killing roughly one person every hour, every day. Of those 42,000 newly diagnosed individuals, only slightly more than half will be alive in five years due to late detection, a number that has not significantly improved in decades. The death rate for oral cancer is higher than that of other cancers that we hear about routinely, such as cervical cancer, Hodgkin's lymphoma, laryngeal cancer, cancer of the testes, and endocrine system cancers such as thyroid, or skin cancer (malignant melanoma). These types of cancer have become so prevalent that The Oral Cancer Foundation even aired a nationwide public service announcement (PSA) partnering with several known celebrities including Michael Douglas, who discussed the importance of early oral cancer detection. (Link to video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L_3S_93_jGE)  

The OralCDx brush biopsy is deemed very accurate and has been the subject of controlled, randomized, clinical trials. In every study in which the same lesion was simultaneously tested with both OralCDx and a scalpel biopsy, OralCDx was shown to be at least as sensitive to a scalpel biopsy in identifying dysplasia or cancer.  Clinical information about the OralCDx Brush test can be found in the following link: http://thebrushtest.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/OralCDx_JADA.pdf

About Millennium HealthCare Inc.

Millennium HealthCare Inc. through its wholly owned operating subsidiaries provides primary care physician practices, physician groups and healthcare facilities of all sizes with cutting edge medical devices focused primarily on preventive care through early detection. The Company also provides advanced billing and coding services and practice development and management services.

About CDx Diagnostics

CDx Diagnostics (www.CDxDiagnostics.com) is the leader in the detection and prevention of cancers of the esophagus, oral cavity, pharynx, and larynx. The CDx tests are primarily used to help prevent cancer before it can start by identifying still-harmless dysplasia (pre-cancer), and are also used to identify early stage cancers when they can be most easily cured. Clinicians use CDx patented minimally invasive brush biopsy instruments to collect a wide-area, full thickness tissue specimen of a suspect lesion. This unique tissue specimen is then subjected to specialized, three-dimensional computer-assisted laboratory analysis. These life saving tests are nationally available to gastroenterologists, otolaryngologists, oral surgeons, periodontitis, and dentists.

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SOURCE Millennium HealthCare Inc.

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