Kidney Cancer

ChemImage Issued Patent for Diagnosis of Kidney Cancer

Published in Cancer Weekly, July 27th, 2010

Scientists at ChemImage Corporation are one step closer to making objective diagnoses of renal disease tissue a reality today with the issuance of patent number 7,755,757. This patent describes a Raman molecular imaging (RMI) system and method for distinguishing renal oncocytoma, a benign diagnosis, from chromophobe renal carcinoma, a malignant diagnosis.

Patent number 7,755,757 the company's 106th patent, functions by imprinting a digital stain on tissues and cells, allowing for an objective assessment of similar-looking tissue samples like renal oncocytoma and chromophobe renal carcinoma. Affecting more than 5,000 patients each year, these disease states are often...

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Source: Cancer Weekly (2010-07-27)

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