British Breast Cancer Company, Endomag, Wins Queen’s Award
21 April 2018 - 9:30AM
Business Wire
UK company providing more accurate tools for
breast cancer removal receives prestigious business award
Endomag, the surgical guidance company, today announced it has
received the Queen’s Award for Enterprise in Innovation for 2018.
The Award recognises the Company’s efforts in developing novel
surgical tools for more accurate removal of breast cancer.
Endomag has developed a minimally invasive surgical guidance
system, using its expertise in magnetic sensing and nanotechnology,
which allows surgeons to locate early-stage breast cancers, that
cannot be felt, with greater precision. The system helps to
maximise the amount of healthy tissue left behind and determine
whether the cancer has spread. These techniques greatly improve the
experience for patients, could save vital hospital resources and
have been demonstrated to be as accurate as the current gold
standards, in numerous clinical trials.
Launched in Europe in 2013, Endomag’s device has been used in
over 30,000 breast cancer procedures, at 300 hospitals in 30
countries. More recently the Company has launched the device in the
US and Canada where it has already been used in thousands of
procedures across North America and is currently being evaluated by
over a hundred hospitals. Major cancer centres including University
of California, San Francisco and University Hospitals Seidman
Cancer Center, Cleveland have already adopted the system into
routine use.
Eric Mayes, CEO at Endomag said: “We’re so pleased to
receive Royal recognition for what our team has been able to
achieve. We pride ourselves on the relationships we’ve developed
with clinicians across the world and actively use their expertise
to help shape the products we develop.
It’s a particularly proud moment for me to know that UK
businesses, like Endomag, are developing products that have real
impact on people’s lives. It’s vitally important that we can
demonstrate that the UK is able to lead on innovation and develop
products and services that improve lives in all corners of the
world.”
For more information about Endomag and its products, visit:
www.endomag.com.
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