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. An updated 68page Executive Informational Overview ® (EIO) written by Crystal Research Associates on MetaStat, Inc. (MTST) is available at www.crystalra.com. Report covers a range of topics: o Oncology markets o MTST’s diagnostic and therapeutic product development: MetaSite Breast, MenaCalc, and MenaBloc o MTST’s novel approach centering on the Mena protein and its alternatively spliced isoforms o Competition o …and other key fundamentals Crystal Research Associates Presents: New Independent Equity Research Published April 23, 2014

MetaStat, Inc. (MTST-OTC) Executive Informational Overview 4-23-2014

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Crystal Research Associates has released a new Executive Informational Overview (EIO) on MetaStat, Inc. (MTST-OTC). This comprehensive, 68-page document updates an earlier EIO published on MetaStat in January 2013. The Company has achieved several significant milestones over the past year and a half, which are each detailed in the new EIO along with current product development and market descriptions for MetaStat’s diagnostic and therapeutic programs.

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• An updated 68‐page Executive Informational Overview® (EIO)written by Crystal Research Associates on MetaStat, Inc. (MTST) is available at www.crystalra.com.

• Report covers a range of topics: 

o Oncology markets

o MTST’s diagnostic and therapeutic product development: MetaSite Breast, MenaCalc, and MenaBloc

o MTST’s novel approach centering on the Mena protein and its alternatively spliced isoforms

o Competition

o …and other key fundamentals

Crystal Research Associates Presents: New Independent Equity Research

Published April 23, 2014

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• Crystal Research Associates’ Executive Informational Overview® (EIO) presents a crystal clear, comprehensive report on a company in a manner that is easily understood by the Wall Street financial community

• Details a company’s product/technology/service offerings, market size(s), key intellectual property, leadership, growth strategy, competition, risks, financial statements, key events, and other fundamental information. 

• Free of investment ratings, target prices, and forward‐looking financial models

• Complete risks and disclosures included in each EIO

• Trademarked EIOs are exclusively written by experienced, award‐winning analysts at Crystal Research Associates

What is an EIO?

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Overview of MetaStat, Inc. (MTST)

• A life sciences company commercializing a new approach to reliably determine a patient’s individual risk of developing systemic metastatic cancer, and then to help reduce this risk through active intervention of the metastatic process

• Portfolio includes two diagnostic platforms targeting breast, prostate, lung, and colorectal cancers, which could enter the market as early as 2015, as well as a therapeutic program:

• MetaSite Breast is a clinical laboratory assay (or test) to predict the likelihood of an early‐stage breast cancer patient’s tumor spreading to distant body parts

• MenaCalc is a diagnostic technology platform for use in determining individual levels of variants of the Mena protein (called “Mena isoforms”) in cancer tissue. Mena has at least five isoforms, and measuring the relationship between these variants can help create an individual metastatic profile as early on in disease progression as possible.

• MenaBloc therapeutics may ultimately prevent metastasis among high‐risk patients when administered as a maintenance therapy after surgery or in conjunction with chemotherapy and other targeted therapies.

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MetaStat Product Roadmap: Commercialization Path in 2015 and Beyond

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Technology Introduction

• In most individuals, the Mena protein is only present in developing embryos where the protein supports nervous system branching. Mena becomes scarce and undetectable in healthy adults. 

• However, Mena also appears in cancer cells, where it supports cancer invasion and metastasis by enabling cancer cells to invade surrounding tissues and migrate toward and penetrate blood vessels.

The key discovery forming the foundation for MetaStat’s product candidates is that the Mena protein isoforms (variants) are important regulators of the metastatic cascade.

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Target Indications for Improving Metastatic Risk Stratification

• MetaSite Breast and MenaCalcBreast diagnostics could provide metastatic risk coverage to the entire breast cancer market• ~ 225,000 new Stage 0‐3 

breast cancer diagnoses/yr

• Prostate cancer could also become a major market for MetaStat• 93% of all prostate cancers 

are in the local or regional stages at diagnosis—representing over 220,000 people each year who could benefit from an improved measure of their risk of developing metastatic prostate cancer

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New Developments Described in Report• Initial sales and marketing plans for MetaSite Breast, which is anticipated to commence sales in 

2015

• MetaStat’s December 2013 presentation of results from a large‐scale study of its MetaSite Breast test at the San Antonio Breast Cancer Symposium

• Results of a clinical validation of the MenaCalc technology presented at the 2014 Annual Meeting of the U.S. and Canadian Academy of Pathology

• The October 2013 opening of a drug discovery laboratory in affiliation with Stony Brook University

• Recent license agreements with MIT and other institutions for the use of alternatively spliced mRNA and protein isoform markers in the diagnosis, prognosis, and treatment of metastatic, epithelial‐based solid tumors—which is central to the Company’s ongoing MenaBloc therapeutic development

• Additions to executive leadership that include a former senior executive from Roche as MetaStat’s new Head of Diagnostics

• Establishment of a highly skilled Scientific Advisory Board for Therapeutics

• Current patent position and strategies

• Most recent historical financial position and fundraising goals

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• Highly experienced—CEO and CMO Dr. Oscar L. Bronsther is a diplomat, American Board of Surgery; chairman, Section of General Surgery, at Inova Fairfax Hospital; and clinical professor of surgery at George Washington University in Washington, D.C.

• MetaStat’s Head of Diagnostics Dr. Heiner Dreismann comes to the company from Roche, where he was president and CEO of Roche Molecular Systems, head of global business development for Roche Diagnostics, and member of Roche’s Global Diagnostic Executive Committee

o Scientific Advisory Board for Therapeutics includes individuals from Duke University and the Duke‐NUS Medical School, the Dana‐Farber Cancer Institute, the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, and MIT

o Scientific Advisory Board for Diagnostics includes individuals from the Department of Anatomy and Structural Biology and the Department of Epidemiology and Population Health at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, and the Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research at MIT

o Clinical Advisory Board includes an attending pathologist at New York Presbyterian Hospital and a professor of medicine and women’s health at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine

• The Board of Directors has considerable business acumen, and includes the CEO of FluoroPharmaMedical Inc., the president and CEO of Frontier Airlines, Inc., and the CEO and chairman of Echo Therapeutics, Inc.

Management

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To read the entire 68‐page EIO on MetaStat, Inc.  (MTST) 

or find information on other companies under coverage, please visit www.crystalra.com.

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