Breast Cancer

Dune Medical Devices Honored With 2007 Frost & Sullivan European Technology Innovation of the Year Award for Novel Cancer Probe

Published in Cancer Weekly, July 31st, 2007

Dune Medical Devices (Caesarea, Israel) has been honored with the 2007 Frost & Sullivan European Technology Innovation of the Year Award in surgical oncology for its novel intraoperative breast cancer probe. Using Radio Frequency (RF) Spectroscopy, the innovative device provides physicians during surgeries with the malignancy status of breast cancer margins in real-time.

Following lumpectomy, cancer patients found to have positive (malignant) surgical margins typically require a second surgery, with added expense and trauma, to reshave tumor sites for additional tissue removal. The Dune handheld probe holds significant promise to reduce re-excision procedures, improve...

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Source: Cancer Weekly (2007-07-31)

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