New Method for Early Stage Breast Cancer Detection

Informazioni relative al progetto

MAMSCAN

ID dell’accordo di sovvenzione: 836843

DOI

10.3030/836843

Progetto chiuso

Data della firma CE 21 Dicembre 2018

Data di avvio 1 Gennaio 2019

Data di completamento 30 Giugno 2019

Finanziato da

• INDUSTRIAL LEADERSHIP - Innovation In SMEs

Costo totale

€ 71 429,00

Contributo UE

€ 50 000,00

Coordinato da

IMAQEN OY
Finland

Periodic Reporting for period 1 - MAMSCAN (New Method for Early Stage Breast Cancer Detection)

Periodo di rendicontazione: 2019-01-01 al 2019-06-30

Sintesi del contesto e degli obiettivi generali del progetto

Our breast imaging solution is responding to the pressing needs of the healthcare sector when the incidence of breast cancer is increasing and expenditure growing along with the ageing population and expanding western lifestyle.

Our goal is to offer a device for cost-efficient, non-invasive and accurate breast check, which could be easily performed e.g. part of yearly general health exams or gynaecological visits. Near 50% of the breast cancers are detected outside the screening programs. Our method utilizes a patented infrared-wavelength scanning method, which looking for suspect time-variant patterns caused by abnormal tumour vasculature. See figure 1 for socio-economic factors of breast cancer in EU.

Lavoro eseguito dall’inizio del progetto fino alla fine del periodo coperto dalla relazione e principali risultati finora ottenuti

During the Horizon phase 1 we have been actively following and deepened our knowledge especially on and clinical requirements, market development and emerging technologies of breast imaging. We have opened doors to clinical test sites in order to collect clinical material needed for verifying our mathematical analysis algorithms, and for implementation of machine learning tools. We’ve been actively following the breast imaging market and technology development through publication reviews, market studies and commercial exhibition visit. We will continue with our original business plan but expect the launch to be delayed from the original plan. We will also be looking for possibilities to utilize our technology in other medical applications.

Progressi oltre lo stato dell’arte e potenziale impatto previsto (incluso l’impatto socioeconomico e le implicazioni sociali più ampie del progetto fino ad ora)

We will go forward with the original business plan but expect it to take longer time than foreseen due to delays in starting longer-term clinical testing. By expanding the possibilities for women to check their breasts more often than easier, would have substantial favorable impact to socio-economic factors described in the figure 1.

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