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Cancer Screening....SIMPLIFIED !
 

CRC Screening .… Simplified !

As a provider, you know that routine screenings for colorectal cancer saves lives. You also know that, despite the clear risks associated with non-compliance, patients refuse to move forward with colonoscopies or fecal-based screening methods. That's why we’ve developed BeScreened™–CRC, a blood-based test that eliminates some of the biggest reservations patients have about screening for colorectal cancer.

For more information on non-clinical verification and clinical validation, take a look at our BeScreenedTM-CRC white paper.

 
 
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“The best colorectal cancer screening test is the one that gets done.”

— Richard Wender, MD, Chief Cancer Control Officer, American Cancer Society

 
 

About BeScreenedTM-CRC

BeScreened™-CRC is an ELISA-based multiplex, screening test of three blood-based tumor-associated protein biomarkers; an oncoprotein called teratocarcinoma derived growth factor-1 (TDGF-1, Cripto-1); carcinoembryonic antigen (CEA), a well-established biomarker associated with CRC; and an extracellular matrix protein involved in early stage tumor stroma changes. These three proteins target immunological activities associated with CRC tumorigenesis; generation, invasion, progression, and migration.

The  assay results are processed through Beacon’s proprietary relational algorithm and evaluated against the algorithm’s healthy patient-state status criteria. Patients that fall within the acceptance criteria are reported as negative for the likely presence of CRC with a recommendation to stay compliant with their individual healthcare well-checks and screening needs. Patients calculated as outliers to that same criteria are reported as positive with an elevated-risk of CRC’s presence with a recommendation to follow-up with their physician to schedule a screening colonoscopy.  

 
 

A Screening Method that Can Save Lives

BeScreened™–CRC is the solution to CRC screening noncompliance and was designed specifically for for this reason. It’s an easy, accurate and affordable blood-based test for CRC screening that can help increase screening compliance in the population of individuals who have been unwilling or unable to be screened using fecal-based testing or invasive imaging procedures, such as colonoscopies. In providing these individuals with another alternative test that is much easier to adopt and more convenient, we can help save more lives and assist in reducing the staggering costs associated with later stage colorectal cancer (CRC) treatment and care by increasing CRC screening compliance using BeScreened-CRC.

 
 
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Ordering BeScreenedTM-CRC

BeScreened™–CRC is a blood-based test for colorectal cancer (CRC) screening specifically designed for those patients who are 45-years of age or older and have been unwilling or unable to participate in current recommended fecal-based CRC screening tests and colonoscopy procedures. 

Ease & Convenience

Ordering your BeScreened Test is easy!

For Arizona residents, Beacon has partnered with Sonora Quest Laboratories (SQL) to provide for sample collection and processing across the entire state through their network of 70+ patient service centers (PSC) and physician based in-office phlebotomists.  Samples are then delivered directly to Beacon for testing and reporting. 

Just download a BeScreened-CRC Test Requisition Form and take it to your doctor or any SQL PSC to get your blood drawn.  Click here for a list of SQL PSCs near you. If you are in the Phoenix Metro area, you can also call Beacon (480-757-9037) and schedule and appointment at our lab for your draw.

For Out-of-State* residents and for Arizona residents that prefer at home health-care services:

  1. Fill out and submit the BeScreened-CRC Test Order Form at the right.

  2. Beacon will have one of its representatives contact you within 72-hours to confirm your information and schedule your blood draw at a location*, date and time that’s convenient for you. After we have confirmed the information provided, your BeScreened-CRC Test Kit will be mailed to you directly to give to the phlebotomist at one of our partnered patient service centers nearest you, or if it is available, through an at-home or in-office appointment.

  3. The phlebotomist will collect and process your sample, mail it back to Beacon for testing, and a report will be available within 10-working days of your sample’s receipt by our lab for your doctor’s and your review.

It’s that simple!

*Not available in NY or CA. The following states also do not allow direct-to-consumer testing and will require a physician’s order/BeScreened-CRC test requisition; AK, AR, CA, CT, HI, ID, IA, KS, ME, MD, MA, MT, NV, NH, NJ, NY, RI, VT, WV, and WY.

BeScreened™-CRC Test Order Form