Authentidate Holding Corp. has partnered with AEON Clinical Laboratories to launch Cancer Detect Profile, a 38-gene cancer genetic test coupled with telehealth-based genetic counseling for the prescribing physicians. The test is designed to identify patients with increased risk of colorectal, breast, pancreatic, ovarian, gastric, melanoma, stomach and other cancers.

The test is now available for use by AEON's base of more than 6,000 physicians who annually treat more than one million patients nationwide. Cancer Detect Profile analyzes mutations in a patient's DNA and RNA within a panel of 38-genes associated with cancer. This genetic testing profile provides information on the connection between a patient's unique genetic makeup and their risk to develop certain prevalent cancers.

AEON will provide a comprehensive report based on an individual patient's DNA and RNA profile that will indicate susceptibility to various cancers. Cancer Detect Profile will help guide clinicians' routes of personalized therapy dependent on the genomic mutation and associated cancer. The Cancer Detect Profile test is available nationwide through any AEON physician.

In addition, AEON offers insurance pre-authorization support and free access to genetic counselors, which are available at all times for in depth consultations with the prescribing physicians. AEON's genetic counselors will provide counseling to prescribing physicians utilizing video chat from the clinician's computer and Authentidate's Web-based telehealth application. Authentidate's platform not only provides a HIPAA-compliant communications interface, but it also tracks and manages all of the data, records the occurrence of events, and all of the patient's information to provide an innovative, differentiated service offering.

As announced on August 25, 2015, Authentidate and AEON Clinical Laboratories have entered into a non-binding letter of intent to combine. The companies continue to work together to complete the definitive agreement for the transaction and anticipate closing the combination transaction in the fourth quarter of 2015.