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CLINICAL TRIALS
SUCCESSFUL HUMAN STUDIES
The Company conducted its pre-clinical human studies and
successfully proved that CancerScanner™ can differentiate
between cancerous and normal tissues of skin cancers (the most
difficult type to detect). The studies were conducted on 27
patients with 38 cancerous and pre-cancerous lesions.
CancerScanner™ was able to detect 81.5% of the cancerous and
72.7% of the pre-cancerous lesions while using only a
single probe:
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Cancerous |
Pre-Cancerous |
| Total
Lesions |
27 |
11 |
| #
Correct |
22 |
8 |
| %
Correct |
81.5% |
72.7% |
Example of Human Results

SpectraPath's technology has great potential to
be the gold standard in noninvasive diagnosis of carcinomas,
such as cervical, breast, skin, esophagus, and colorectal.
Currently, the Company's primary focus is to complete clinical
trials of its technology in order to get PMA and CE Mark
approvals for domestic and European skin cancer markets. After
passing initial phases of the clinical trials, SpectraPath is
planning to start clinical trials of the technology for
diagnosis of cervical cancer on human subjects.
CancerScanner™ also has potential for
neurosurgeons to determine the surgical margins for brain
lesions in real-time while operating on the patient. Seven
ex-vivo experiments have been performed on human brain tissues
just after surgery and before pathologic examination. For the
confirmation, spectra taken from human normal and cancerous
brain tissue have been compared to the pathological examination.
All the measurements are consistent to the pathological
examinations. Where, slopes of normal tissues are positive and
cancerous tissues are negative.
Brain Lesion: Medulloblastoma


Brain Lesion: Sarcoma metastasis,
gliosarcoma


SUCCESSFUL ANIMAL STUDIES
SpectraPath built the first prototype (single-probe version)
of the CancerScanner system, and conducted efficacy experiments
on mice at Rumbaugh-Goodwin Institute. Experimental results
revealed that the CancerScanner system could successfully
differentiate between cancerous and healthy tissue with a high
rate of reliability. Upon successful completion of the
experiments, SpectraPath filed permanent U.S. and International
patents for the CancerScanner technology. The Company continued
its animal studies with Dr. Kumi-Diaka at Florida Atlantic
University (FAU) and proved that CancerScanner can differentiate
between cancerous and normal tissues of breast, prostate,
kidney, and liver on rats.
The graphical depiction of the data (see next page) clearly
shows that the CancerScanner easily differentiated cancerous
cells from healthy cells (shown as negative correlation).
Experiments on Balb/c mice with EMT-6
breast cancer cells


Kidney Tissues


Prostate culture cells and tissues


Liver Tissues


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