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SpectraScience to Distribute Optical Biopsy System

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SAN DIEGO, June 24, 2012 — Medical device company SpectraScience Inc. has signed an exclusive five-year agreement with Pentax Europe GmbH to distribute its WavSTAT optical biopsy system for colorectal cancer screening and diagnosis.

Pentax provides minimally invasive surgical devices, including flexible endoscopes that are used with the WavSTAT system during colorectal cancer screenings.

The agreement, which includes the company’s new WavSTAT4 mobile console and disposable optical biopsy forceps, covers Europe, Turkey, Saudi Arabia and South Africa. It also provides for minimum purchase quantities in specified countries and gives Pentax a right of first refusal option for all other countries in the Middle East and Africa.

"Among the initial programs planned with Pentax will be to address an exciting potential opportunity involving a new national colorectal cancer screening program that will begin in The Netherlands effective Jan. 1, 2013,” said Michael Oliver, CEO. “With a shortage of gastroenterologists, Dutch hospitals are initiating an extensive training program in 2012 to develop a cadre of nurse endoscopists to provide adequate capacity to conduct screening colonoscopies. We believe the WavSTAT4 System is the perfect tool to improve the nurses' diagnostic effectiveness during these procedures."

For more information, visit: www.spectrascience.com
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Published: June 2012
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photonics
The technology of generating and harnessing light and other forms of radiant energy whose quantum unit is the photon. The science includes light emission, transmission, deflection, amplification and detection by optical components and instruments, lasers and other light sources, fiber optics, electro-optical instrumentation, related hardware and electronics, and sophisticated systems. The range of applications of photonics extends from energy generation to detection to communications and...
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