Report

Teaser, summary, work performed and final results

Periodic Reporting for period 1 - MammoWave (Cutting edge microwave imaging device for safe and accurate breast cancer screening)

Teaser

The MammoWave project addresses the shortcomings and risks associated with mammography. Mammography has been the medical industry’s “gold standard” breast cancer screening tool for nearly four decades. However, a number of adverse effects, including those caused by...

Summary

The MammoWave project addresses the shortcomings and risks associated with mammography. Mammography has been the medical industry’s “gold standard” breast cancer screening tool for nearly four decades. However, a number of adverse effects, including those caused by exposure to x-rays, are now limiting the use of mammography as a mass screening.

Finding a reliable and safer alternative to mammography is key to reduce the burden of breast cancer to society. Breast cancer is the most prevalent form of cancer in women. One in nine women will acquire breast cancer at some point in their life and one in thirty will die from the disease.

The overall objectives of the MammoWave H2020 project are:

1) Development of a interoperable application for MammoWave imaging management
2) Prove MammoWave large scale manufacturability and assembly repeatability
3) Validate MammoWave’s performances in international clinical study
4) Develop international commercial channels

Work performed

In the first reporting period, UBT has been working on all the five work packages, with significant results already secured in WP1, WP2, WP3 and WP4:

1) Development and delivery of the suite of software managing the operations of the MammoWave device (WP1)
2) Conversion of the MammoWave’s output into DICOM format for the complete interoperability of the device in every hospital environment (Milestone of this project, WP1)
3) Assembly and successful testing of the first batch of 8 MammoWave units (MammoWave IV generation) (WP2)
4) Ethics committee authorisation from the San Martino Hospital (Genova, Italy) (WP3)
5) Publications on prestigious journals such as Scientific Reports (a natureresearch journal) and Biomedical Signal Processing and Control (Elsevier)(WP4)
6) Identification of strong potential commercial partners and significant progress with selected investors (WP4)

Final results

The international clinical study is expected to confirm MammoWave\'s overall accuracy above 80%. If successful, this new, larger, clinical study is expected to fast track MammoWave\'s entry into the EU market. Therefore, the MammoWave H2020 project can have a big impact on the company boosting UBT\'s growth and commercial success. And, most improtantly, on the milliopn of patients looking for a safer and relaible breast cancer screening alternative.

Website & more info

More info: https://www.ubt-tech.com/en/overview/.