Breast cancer management
Breast cancer is the world’s most prevalent form of cancer. In 2020, almost eight million patients had been living with breast cancer for the past five years, 2.3 million were diagnosed with breast cancer and the disease caused a staggering 685,000 deaths. Ref
The WHO’s Global Breast Cancer Initiative’s (GBCI) objective is to reduce the global breast cancer mortality rate by 2.5% per year. Ref
Any lesion detected in mammography screening needs to be addressed. In some cases, a biopsy is taken for tissue analysis, and if necessary, it is removed with open surgery.
The Resitu instrument allows for large tissue sample collection for the histopathologist to examine.
Consultant Breast surgeon Andreas Karakatsanis at Uppsala University Hospital, Sweden:
“We see a rising demand for minimally invasive biopsy methods that facilitate the retrieval of larger tissue samples, that potentially can reduce false negative results and minimize the need for recalls and new biopsies".
