MedCity News July 2, 2020
Toronto-based Perimeter Medical Imaging wants to make breast conservation surgeries more efficient by combining an optical coherence tomography device with an AI engine to reduce the number of repeat surgeries required.
The possibility of repeat surgeries to remove cancer from women diagnosed with breast cancer is a reality of breast conservation surgery. In the U.S. about 25 percent of women need additional surgery after a lumpectomy, which is done to preserve breast tissue after an initial breast cancer diagnosis.
This is because, following a lumpectomy after which the patient is sent home, a pathologist’s report days or weeks later may find cancer at the margins of the excised breast tissue. And that positive margin means the patient has to undergo...
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