Veran Medical
Jun 05, 2006
NASHVILLE, June 5, 2006 – Veran Medical Technologies together with Dr. Damian Dupuy at Rhode Island Hospital jointly announced today that the first patient was entered into a ground-breaking clinical trial. Dr. Dupuy is utilizing the SPiN IR™ System to validate the earlier diagnosis and more efficient delivery of therapy of lung, liver, kidney, and bone cancer. The Veran IG4 Navigation System potentially enables interventional oncologists to target smaller lesions using four dimensional (4D) real time data. “This marks a key milestone for Veran in the validation of its technology to provide cost effective, enhanced solutions to physicians. Supporting clinical trials which provide the data needed for evidence based medicine is critical to our growth strategy,” said Jerome R. Edwards, Veran president and chief executive officer.
Veran is a privately held medical device company headquartered in St. Louis, MO. The company’s mission is to empower physicians to diagnose cancer earlier and to enable precision therapy to save lives. In the United States, lung cancer kills more people each year than breast, prostate, pancreatic and colon cancers combined.
Veran has developed and commercialized an FDA cleared, next generation electromagnetic thoracic navigation platform called the SPiN Thoracic Navigation System®. Veran’s breakthrough technology has been adopted by leading cancer centers throughout the United States. Veran provides physicians with a full line of bronchoscopic brushes, needles, forceps and steerable catheters with tiny electromagnetic sensors embedded in the tips for precise navigation. The combination of these proprietary Always-On Tip Tracked® instruments and Veran’s exclusive patient respiratory gating technology enables physicians to accurately access lung nodules by accounting for nodule movement during patient breathing, a common challenge for lung specialists.
Another challenge lung specialists face is that approximately 40% of lung nodules lie outside of an airway, making them very difficult to reach endobronchially, and traditionally requiring an additional procedure. Veran’s SPiN Thoracic Navigation System® is the first and only FDA cleared technology that enables Pulmonologists or Thoracic Surgeons to safely and accurately access lung nodules outside of an airway using SPiN Perc®, a navigated transthoracic needle. With SPiN Perc®, Veran combines endobronchial navigation with percutaneous navigation, allowing physicians to access all lung nodules in a single procedure, regardless of nodule size or location. This eliminates the cost and risk of unnecessary procedures and empowers physicians to provide a same day diagnosis for their patients. The early diagnosis and treatment of lung cancer has been proven to save lives.