- Imagin Medical Inc. has designed a system to improve the visualization of bladder cancer during minimally invasive surgery that will display, simultaneously, white and blue light images side-by-side, to help surgeons more easily identify and locate cancerous tumors for removal
- The company’s i/Blue Imaging System(TM) has the potential to make bladder cancer detection and removal more efficient and accurate, as well as reduce recurrence rates and health care costs, targeting a global bladder cancer market estimated to reach $4.71 billion by 2026
- The company’s proprietary system has entered the manufacturing stage with their partner Lighthouse Imaging, an FDA registered and ISO 13485:2016 certified manufacturer. Imagin expects to have the final design-for-manufacturing model ready to demonstrate at the American Urological Association (“AUA”) meeting in September 2021
Bladder cancer has a one of the highest recurrence rates, with approximately 50% of patients likely to relapse, making it one of the most prevalent and expensive cancers to treat. A primary contributor to this high recurrence rate is the difficulty surgeons may have in seeing and clearly locating all of the cancerous tumors and their margins. If cancerous cells are missed and not removed, the cancer can recur.
Surgeons treating early-stage bladder cancer often use a cystoscope, a long tube with a camera and light at the end, inserted through the urethra to explore the bladder. Using white light illumination, the...
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