Paige Secures Eighth CE Mark For Cancer Identification AI

The Memorial Sloan Kettering spin-out has received CE-IVD and UKCA marks for its artificial intelligence software designed to identify HER2 expression in biopsies.

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Just over a month since its seventh CE mark for its prostate cancer biomarker suite, Paige AI has collected its eighth, this time for its HER2Complete software, the company announced on 23 June.

Paige's HER2Complete is the first CE-IVD and UKCA-marked AI tool designed to identify tumor tissue with HER2 (human epidermal growth...

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