Invest in Cancer Stocks: Make Money and Make a Difference

By Eric Shea Broadus

If you like investing in stocks and hate cancer, then why not build wealth by investing in companies dedicated to fighting the disease?

Eric Shea Broadus, a cancer survivor and the founder of an investment advisory firm, draws on his decades of experience in the financial arena to help investors make money while supporting a great cause. Learn how to:

• determine who to consult when making investment decisions;
• identify publicly traded companies that are waging war against cancer;
• evaluate investments based on key metrics;
• establish and track investment goals.

Throughout the book, the author highlights why supporting companies that are seeking to fight, treat, and cure cancer is so important, as well as the lessons he learned battling cancer.

Companies dedicated to fighting cancer and bolstering the immune system are making a significant difference for millions of current and future cancer patients and have produced wonderful financial returns for many investment portfolios. Learn how to build a profitable portfolio consisting of oncology stocks, health insurance stocks, and real estate investment trusts related to cancer treatment with this guide.

• Language: English
• Publisher: WestBow Press
• Release date: Jan 18, 2023
• ISBN: 9781664287891

Eric Shea Broadus

Eric Shea Broadus is a leukemia survivor and the founder and investment adviser representative at Can Serve Free LLC, an investment advisory firm. He earned a Bachelor of Arts in Economics from IUPUI and a Master of Arts in International Relations from Johns Hopkins University. Broadus holds an investment advisory license and has more than twenty years of experience in various finance roles. He lives with his wife, Liliana, in Georgia.

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CONTENTS

Acknowledgments

Introduction

FROM HEARTBREAK TO A GREAT DISCOVERY

Chapter One

SCREENING AND PREVENTION MADE THE DIFFERENCE

Chapter Two

IT’S PERSONAL, AND IT’S BUSINESS

Chapter Three

PUT YOUR MONEY WHERE YOUR ANGER IS

Micro Cap Companies

Small Cap Companies

Mid Cap Companies

Large Cap Companies

Mega Cap Companies

Chapter Four

GOOD PRICE VERSUS GOOD VALUE

Chapter Five

REAL ESTATE: ANOTHER WEAPON AGAINST CANCER

Micro Cap Companies

Small Cap Companies

Mid Cap Companies

Large Cap Companies

REIT Exchange-Traded Funds (ETFs)

Chapter Six

HEALTH INSURANCE IS TRULY LIFE INSURANCE

Chapter Seven

HEALTHCARE STOCKS ON THE MERGERS AND ACQUISITIONS (M&A) RADAR

Chapter Eight

WHO CAN YOU TRUST?

Chapter Nine

CAN SERVE FREE LLC

Conclusion

About the Author

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

This book is a seed that is finally ready to be planted. As I do so, I have so many to thank for this opportunity.

First and foremost, I dedicate this book to my Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. I am who I am, or ever will become, because of the Great I AM.

Next, I want to thank my dear wife, Liliana (I call her Carolina), for her steadfast love for me. She added enormous creativity and thoughtfulness in helping me finish this book. It is beyond words how much I love and appreciate her. I love you, Amor.

I want to thank my parents, Eric Norris Broadus and Olivia Denise Stowers, and my parents-in-law, Hector and Ilse Perez, for their love and support. Also, I would like to express my most heartfelt appreciation to my aunt Lillian Charleston and my uncle William Henry Broadus for their many words of encouragement over the years.

I am also grateful to David Williams, my former boss at a company I worked for in Duluth, Georgia and Ron Cox, a Christian men’s fellowship leader at Gwinnet Church in Sugar Hill, Georgia. They took time out of their busy days to read drafts of the manuscript. I appreciate knowing these great men of faith.

Finally, I extend love you and respect you sentiments to all cancer patients, cancer survivors, and those deceased because of cancer, including many in my family, my wife’s family, and friends. They have touched my life and have inspired me to write this book.

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INTRODUCTION

From Heartbreak to a Great Discovery

There is never a shortage of soul-inspiring stories that can ignite the flames within—stories that arouse a person’s keen impulses and curiosities to strive for higher heights despite experiencing on occasion the most unfair of circumstances. What I am about to share with you is surely no different. It is about an extremely ambitious young man who grew up in his hometown of Indianapolis, Indiana. He was a good student whose high school grades and extracurricular activities (including being student-body president his senior year) were good enough for him to earn admission and a scholarship as a biology/premed major to a highly reputable, private, in-state institution of higher learning, Butler University. The future looked bright for him as he set out to fulfill his childhood dream of one day becoming a medical doctor.

About four weeks into his first semester, he began to experience moments of intense fatigue compounded by a series of back-to-back colds and flu-like illnesses that materialized in similar fashion to a perfect array of vertical dominos lined up on a table and subsequently falling over one another within a brief period. By early October of that semester, this young man was missing all classes, staying home to recover. He knew something was not right, but—as many bright-eyed yet immature eighteen-year-olds would do—brushed it off as a common, insignificant setback. No big deal, he thought. Ignoring those warning signs would cost him dearly a few weeks later—with unimaginable downstream consequences that would span multiple years. Still battling annoying flu-like symptoms, and on occasion noticing trickles of blood appearing from blowing his nose after a sneeze, he made the determination to return to his classes on campus.

On one of those unremarkable routine days, he was sitting uncomfortably in biology class, struggling to listen to the professor’s lecture, when he suddenly began to feel the most powerful, violent sensations of nausea and stomach cramps that he had ever felt in his life. There is simply no other way to describe it than this: he felt like he needed to vomit and defecate at the same time. In that unexpected instance of experiencing those sharp pains, he jumped up from his classroom seat and, startling his classmates a bit, ran as fast as he could toward the exit to reach the men’s restroom a few feet away before the biological inevitable was to occur.

He never made it to the men’s restroom.

When he opened his eyes, the young college student had a panoramic view of the hallway ceiling and images of strange men in blurry, bizarre-looking uniforms peering down at him uttering undiscernible, muffled words that sounded like the inconspicuous elementary school teacher from the classic cartoon, Charlie Brown. As he gained consciousness (for he had crashed the back of his head into the university main building hallway floor and passed out), he recognized that those strange men were paramedics who had been called to assist. After a few minutes of posing questions as he remained on the floor, they were eventually able to get the young man (now somewhat embarrassed) onto a stretcher and transport him to Methodist Hospital (as was the name back then)—the largest hospital near downtown Indianapolis—where the emergency room unit team ran a gamut of tests to determine what could be the issue.

During this time, the hospital notified his parents of the tragic occurrence, and they joined their son at the hospital later that day. After completing a series of blood tests, the doctors discovered that his white blood cell count level (i.e., leukocytes that fight infections) was astronomically high, well above normal levels. In tandem, his red blood cell count (which carries hemoglobin that transports oxygen in the blood) and platelets cell count (which prevents internal and external bleeding) were significantly below normal levels. The rapid, irregular production of unhealthy white blood cells were crowding out the typically normal production of red blood cells and platelets—thus the reason for the nosebleeds when sneezing and eventually collapsing to the university hallway floor due to lack of adequate oxygen to the brain.

After completing a series of additional medical exams, the results were conclusive to the doctors. The doctors diagnosed the young college student with a fully advanced stage of acute myeloid leukemia (AML), the deadliest form of leukemia known to humans at that time, and surprisingly common in children up to eighteen years old. Given the severity of his current condition, the doctors were doubtful that he would survive more than a few days and subtly informed his parents that they should consider making those awful, dreaded preparations that no parent is ever ready to make. Beyond the obvious health concerns, the heartbreak of the young man having to leave school, while his friends moved on with their lives, was devastating.

Truly fortunate for him, that was not the end of the story. God had other plans.

After a series of extremely aggressive chemotherapy and radiation treatments, and some other severely trying, near-death episodes that occurred over several months, he eventually became a prime candidate to receive a bone marrow transplant from one of his two younger sisters and spent the next three