Start-Up Spotlight: Lumicell, Shining The Light On Real-Time, Intraoperative Tumor Detection
Executive Summary
With its coffers topped up and a new CEO in place, Lumicell is forging ahead with clinical trials of its LUM real-time, cancer imaging system, designed to improve the outcomes of surgical resection of tumors. The company's first target indication is for breast cancer and it is aiming for a US premarket approval in late Q1 of 2019.
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