Operator
Ladies and gentlemen, thank you for standing by, and welcome to the Exact Sciences' first-quarter 2021 earnings call. [Operator instructions] I would now like to hand the conference over to your speaker today, Mr. Erik Holznecht, senior financial analyst. Sir, please begin.
Erik Holznecht --
Senior Investor Relations Associate
Thank you, Brent. And thanks to all of you for joining us for Exact Sciences' first-quarter 2021 conference call. On the call today are Kevin Conroy, the company's chairman and CEO; and Jeff Elliott, our chief financial and chief operating officer. Exact Sciences issued a news release earlier this afternoon detailing our first-quarter financial results.