The handheld breast-cancer-scanning device has been deployed in parts of the developing world where mammograms are scarce due to their high cost, lack of electricity, or a dearth of radiologists.
Miles away from the nearest imaging center and wearing a kimono instead of a medical gown, I am sitting at the kitchen table in my Brooklyn apartment with Matthew Campisi, a professor of electrical and computer engineering at NYU. Goateed and genial, Campisi has stopped by to give me a demo of, a handheld breast-cancer-scanning device that he and fellow med-tech entrepreneur Mihir Shah began developing in 2009 as part of their UE LifeSciences health care start-up.
. “Our original plan was to fill a huge need specifically in the developing world, as most diagnoses were coming in at a very late stage,” he says. “And then a light bulb went off.” Why, he and Shah—an adjunct faculty member at Drexel University’s School of Biomedical Engineering, Science and Health Systems—wondered, shouldn’t they try to get the device approved for use in the United States?
“There is a developing-world demographic in many urban areas of the U.S.,” confirms Campisi. But he also sees enticing promise in serving the demographic that does have access to mammography. He’s promoting the apparatus as a way to document a clinical breast exam—“which, if you ask any O.B., is a missing link.” “It gives you absolute, retrievable, reproducible data you can compare year to year,” Englander reiterates.
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