Exact Sciences to Participate in Economist's Health Care Forum
MADISON, Wis.—(BUSINESS WIRE)— Exact Sciences Corp. (Nasdaq: EXAS) today announced that Kevin Conroy, the company's chairman and chief executive, will participate in The Economist's Health Care Forum: War on Cancer on Sept. 29, 2015 in Boston.
Mr. Conroy will take part in the panel discussion titled "Better integration for better results, Transforming the oncology ecosystem to improve health-care delivery" at 2:45 p.m. ET at the Seaport Boston Hotel. This strategy session will explore how companies can better collaborate quickly and deliver on patient care needs both efficiently and cost-effectively. The event is not being webcast.
The third annual forum will explore the role of collaboration and integration in driving innovation and progress in cancer care. It will focus on innovative approaches and solutions across policy and financing, prevention, early detection, treatment and long-term management of this deadly disease. The event will bring together Economist editors and internationally-renowned senior experts in these and other cancer-related fields.
About Exact Sciences Corp.
Exact Sciences Corp. is a molecular diagnostics company focused on the early detection and prevention of some of the deadliest forms of cancer. The company has exclusive intellectual property protecting its noninvasive, molecular screening technology for the detection of colorectal cancer. Cologuard is included in the colorectal cancer screening guidelines of the American Cancer Society and stool DNA is included in the guidelines of the U.S. Multi-Society Task Force on Colorectal Cancer. For more information, please follow us on Twitter @ExactSciences or find us on Facebook.
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