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Follow on Google News | Zenalux Announces Grants from the National Institute of Health for Cancer ScreeningOver the past year, the project team has worked closely with international partners and has received regulatory approval to conduct clinical studies in Lima, Peru and Nairobi, Kenya. Regulatory approval with other planned sites is in-progress. Multi-center clinical studies are targeted to begin in Peru after completing evaluation at Duke. Other sites that will follow include Kenya, Tanzania, Zambia, and a number of locations in India. In areas where neither HPV testing nor Pap smears are routinely available, the typical method used for screening is visual inspection with acetic acid (VIA), which can produce inaccurate results. The Zenascope system is a specialized, real-time, non-invasive, diagnostic device that shines white light on opaque target media and then measures and analyzes the reflected signal. Imaging is used for the surveillance of the acetowhitened cervix and the spectroscopy device interrogates total hemoglobin concentration, oxygen saturation, and the reduced scattering coefficient extracted from diffuse reflectance measurements using a scalable Monte Carlo model that was developed by Zenalux. Zenalux also presented data collected with the Zenascope at the Global Non-Communicable Disease Research conference. The findings, which focused on the use of the Zenascope in cervical pre-cancer screening in East Africa where neither HPV testing nor Pap smears are routinely available, showed promise in being able to detect cervical dysplasia. The Zenascope® system can also easily be tuned to include additional absorbers of interest. This unique capability is expected to enable improved diagnosis, better treatment, and ultimately cost reduction in the health care system. The system is currently designated for investigational use only. Application areas currently include accelerating feedback in drug discovery; breast tumor margin assessment; response to therapy; breast biopsy; cervical cancer detection; and head and neck cancer detection. To learn more about the Zenascope and the technology, visit www.zenalux.com. Contact Zenalux at 2608 Erwin Road, Suite 148-164, Durham, NC 27705; call (919)-794-5757; About Zenalux Biomedical, Inc. Zenalux Biomedical is a biomedical diagnostics start-up company that is developing novel biophotonic- Contact info@zenalux.com End
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