SpectraScience Announces Second Shipment of WavSTAT4 Console to Leeds, England
Expanded Trial Exclusively for Nurse Practioners
SAN DIEGO, CA--(Marketwired - March 29, 2016) - SpectraScience, Inc. (SCIE), a medical device company utilizing light technologies to detect and diagnose cancers, announced today that St. James Hospital in Leeds, England has requested an additional WavSTAT Optical Biopsy System© to be used by nurse endoscopists to generate data for the Medical Device Technology Approval Panel of the National Institute of Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE). Approval by NICE is a pre-condition for sales in the UK.
"In countries such as the UK where nurse endoscopists perform a significant number of the screening colonoscopies it is important their input be considered in gathering clinical data for the approval process. One of the key advantages of the WavSTAT system is its ability to provide a superior diagnostic capability to every level of clinician. We enable community physicians and nurse endoscopists to have a diagnostic capability that equals that of experts," said Michael Oliver, President and Chief Executive Officer of SpectraScience, Inc. "Our system is fast, easy to use and requires very little training for the clinician to become proficient. It enables the clinician to use the existing colonoscopy procedure. It provides the clinician with real-time, actionable diagnoses; is safer for the patient by eliminating unnecessary polypectomies and biopsies; and reduces the total cost of health care."
About SpectraScience, Inc.:
SpectraScience is a San Diego based medical device company that designs, develops, manufactures and markets spectrophotometry systems capable of determining whether tissue is normal, pre-cancerous or cancerous without physically removing tissue from the body. Protected by more than 30 patents in 28 countries, covering fundamental elements of the technology, the WavSTAT Optical Biopsy System uses light to optically scan tissue and provide the physician with an immediate analysis. With FDA approval for sale in the U.S. and the CE Mark for the European Union, the WavSTAT System is the first commercially available product that incorporates this innovative patent protected technology for clinical use.
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