"Completing active enrollment is a significant milestone in Seno's efforts to commercialize Imagio. We developed Imagio with the goal of reducing the number of imaging tests and invasive procedures women currently have to undergo to learn if a suspicious breast mass is cancerous or not. We would like to thank our investigators and their dedicated teams for participating in this important study. We hope Imagio will have a significant impact on the diagnosis of breast cancer in the future," said Janet Campbell, CEO of Seno Medical Instruments.
According to the American Cancer Society's estimates, 232,340 new cases of invasive breast cancer and an additional 64,640 cases of in situ breast cancer were diagnosed and approximately 39,620 women in the U.S. died from the disease during 2013. Only lung cancer accounts for more cancer deaths in women.
Seno's Imagio fuses opto-acoustics, a technology based on "light-in and sound-out," with diagnostic ultrasound. The opto-acoustic images provide a unique blood map in and around suspicious breast masses. Cancerous tumors grow relatively quickly and require significant amounts of blood and oxygen, so a network of blood vessels grows around cancerous masses. Imagio provides images of these networks and a map of relative oxygen-rich or oxygen-deprived blood. Unlike other functional fusion technologies, Imagio uses no x-rays (ionizing radiation) or injectable contrast agents to obtain its information, thereby reducing the patient's exposure to any potentially harmful aspects of imaging.
About Seno Medical Instruments, Inc.
Seno Medical Instruments, Inc. is a San Antonio, Texas-based medical imaging company committed to the development and commercialization of a new modality in cancer diagnosis: opto-acoustic imaging. Seno's Imagio breast imaging system fuses opto-acoustic technology with ultrasound to generate functional and anatomical images of the breast. The opto-acoustic images provide a unique blood map around suspicious breast masses while the ultrasound provides a traditional anatomic image. Through the appearance or absence of the two hallmark indicators of cancer - angiogenesis and deoxygenation - Seno believes that Imagio images will be a more effective tool to help radiologists confirm or rule out malignancy than current diagnostic imaging modalities - without exposing patients to potentially harmful ionizing radiation (x-rays) or contrast agents. Seno's platform technology may also address other disease applications in organs other than the breast, as well as assessing other breast problems, such as early response to chemotherapy or hormonal treatments of breast cancer. To learn more about Seno Medical's opto-acoustic imaging technology and applications, visit www.SenoMedical.com
