"Successful breast cancer treatment relies on detecting the cancer and its subtype as quickly as possible," said Gisela Menezes, MD, PhD, Medical Director at Seno Medical and the article's lead author. "This promising data using a non-invasive diagnostic approach with OA/US molecular bioimaging could potentially give patients a better chance of getting more accurate and timely prognosis and treatment."

"Although this is a new emerging technology, these encouraging results show that Seno Medical's OA/US technology could impact the course of cancer diagnosis for millions of women," said Ruud Pijnappel, MD, PhD, Professor at University Medical Center, Utrecht, Netherlands and one of the study's authors. "This technology could give physicians the information needed to make a more confident diagnosis in less time, improve their patient's experience, and potentially reduce biopsies of benign masses."


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 a molecular partner to ultrasound. Seno Medical's Imagio® Breast Imaging System fuses opto-acoustic technology with ultrasound (OA/US) to generate real-time functional and anatomical images of the breast. Through the appearance or absence of two hallmark indicators of cancer – angiogenesis and deoxygenation – the opto-acoustic images provide a unique blood map in and around breast masses while the interleved and coregistered ultrasound provides a traditional anatomic image.


SOURCE Seno Medical

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