LLTech, an imaging company specialized in the field of the real-time optical biopsy for the diagnosis and the assessment of cancer surgery, announces today the publication of a new study demonstrating the potential of its Full-field optical coherence tomography (FFOCT) technology in the pre-histological detection of prostate cancer.
During a study led to the Beijing Hospital of Health Ministry (Beijing, China), Cochin Hospital (Paris, France) and UCLA (Los Angeles, USA), three readers (a pathologist with previous experience with FFOCT, a pathologist new to FFOCT, and a urologist new to FFOCT) were trained to read FFOCT images of prostate biopsies (a set of 25 complete images) by using the Light-CT Scanner solution developed by LLTECH. After training, pathologists have red a set of 110 anonymized and randomized images and obtained 100% sensitivity on high grade cancer detection (Gleason 6 and above) and 96% overall specificity. For their part, urologist obtained 88% sensitivity on high-grade cancer and 89% overall specificity.
Bertrand Le Conte de Poly, CEO and co-founder of LLTECH, commented:“The prostate cancerdiagnosis requires multiple biopsies and recalling frequently the patient. This situation has psychological consequences and sometimes heavy medical complications for the patient. This new study demonstrates the advantages of the FFOCT technology. Faster and more precise, this new standard of ultrahigh imaging resolution allows the physician (radiologist, urologist, surgeon) a real-time decision making and will avoid eventually expensive and repeated procedures for the HealthCare System “.
The Company, award-winner of of the Medical imaging innovation SFR/Medicen/SNITEM 2015, will be present at The French Days of Radiology, October 14-17 in Paris, France. During this conference, LLTECH will expose the latest high-speed version of its imaging solution and will present its last results during a session entitled :”Moving forward in male urogenital imaging”.
(Credit: Fortune)