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Start-Up Spotlight: Lumicell, Shining The Light On Real-Time, Intraoperative Tumor Detection

 
• By Tina Tan

With its coffers topped up and a new CEO in place, Lumicell is forging ahead with clinical trials of its LUM real-time, cancer imaging system, designed to improve the outcomes of surgical resection of tumors. The company's first target indication is for breast cancer and it is aiming for a US premarket approval in late Q1 of 2019.

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Lumicell shines the light on cancer surgery

Of the 300,000 cancer lumpectomies that take place in the US each year, over 60,000 of these patients undergo a second surgery to remove tumor tissue that had been missed in the first procedure. These re-excisions not only cause additional discomfort and a negative emotional and cosmetic impact on the patient, they can also cost the health care system up to $1bn each year.

"This is a huge challenge that is faced by the patients, the physicians and the payers. Currently, there are no...

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