Parts 1 and 2
by Malcolm Stacey
1) Hello Share Crafters. In the past I’ve probably written too many pieces on
a medical share which I like. During that period, I’ve seen the shares rise from 2p to 17p. Sadly, the share price has reversed back to 6.5p. And the worst of it is I bought a shedload more shares when they were around 10p. I refer, of course, to that darling of the bulletin boards Advanced Oncotherapy (AVO). I haven’t featured the company for some time now and it’s probably worth an update.
OK, let’s look at the good bits about this interesting company. Advanced is convinced that it has the answer to a real – and it seems to me – a growing health problem.That is cancer and especially cancer in harder to get at areas, like the brain.
It is working on a system which zaps cancer cells with proton beams. Other companies do this, too, but the advantage for Advanced is that its system will be much cheaper to run and take up less valuable clinic space.
It is confident that it will be able to demonstrate a full scale prototype some time this year, before beginning commercial production in 2017.
I’ve been hearing what the chief executive Dr Michael Sinclair has to say. He argues that the medics and scientists working on the project could all be doing something else in their chosen field. But they are concentrating instead on this proton beam zapper. He says, and I believe him, that they would not do this for a technology that was not absolutely worth it.
He claims all those involved – and their names are well respected in the global fight against cancer – have one aim: to reduce the cost of treatment, especially among children. Probably to earn a little money for themselves, too, I expect.
The company has completed a significant fund raise and has in place alternative routes to extra finance should it be desired. However, it is not expected to be needed.
I have may have invested rather more than I really should in Advanced Oncotherapy. But it appears to be on track in doing what it has to do. So my money stands a real chance of doing the world a heck of a lot of good.
Unlike the Punter’s Return.
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2) Hello Share Slickers. I’ve already featured the bulletin board darling, Advanced Oncotherapy (AVO) this week. But as I’ve currently spent a large wodge of time researching this interesting share, it would be a waste not to bring you a bit more info and opinion on a stock which has risen like a rocket and fallen like a brick. I think that fall has been overdone and punters are possibly waiting in the wings for a bit more news before they return to the stock.
That’s the trouble with Advanced as far as I can see. News of late has been thin on the ground. And when now’t happens there is normally a decay in share price.
The company is expecting to deliver ‘news’ during the third or fourth quarter of this year.
It presently claims that the cost of its proton beam cancer treatments are a fifth of some other proton machines. They will also take up far less room. And Advanced also makes claims in two other areas.
One is that its system is very precise. This means that cancer cells can be targetted, while cutting down any damage to healthy cells around the tumours.
Another important area of benefit – and I don’t think I’ve mentioned this before – is one of safety. The prototype will be installed in Harley Street, the medical centre of Britain. It will not be bunkered in a remote location, which is required by some other existing devices.
Advanceds proton beam system will not just be weighed against existing proton beam machines, but should also be able to replace existing x-ray treatments. Some of these around the world are rather antiquated now and so safety becomes paramount.
The size of the cancer treatment industry is huge. Advanced says it hopes to gather to it 10-15% of that market in the next 10-15 years. Also, though it is a relatively small company, it has some big partners in the med-tech industry and they will not want it to fail.
However, and I can’t stress this too strongly, Advanced is a pioneer and investors must be aware that risks usually accompany pioneering ventures.
That’s what we say in the Punter’s Return.
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