BRITISH TECHNOLOGY SHOWCASED AT 75th WORLD HEALTH ASSEMBLY

Zilico will address WHO with their enhanced women’s and people with cervices health diagnostic tool

24^th May 2022 – ZedScan™ by Zilico, the British developed and manufactured diagnostic technology for cervical cancer will take centre stage at the World Health Assembly. Zilico’s proprietary technology measures cell changes providing immediate and accurate diagnosis of tissue which may be abnormal. Used by many NHS Trusts, the advanced diagnostic tool will help provide better outcomes for women across the globe.

The World Health Assembly is the decision-making body of WHO (World Health Organisation). It is attended by delegations from all WHO Member States. The main functions of the World Health Assembly are to determine the policies of the Organization, and review and approve the proposed programme budget. The Health Assembly is held annually in Geneva, Switzerland.

Sameer Kothari, CEO, Zilico says; “I am very proud that ZedScan is receiving the recognition and the global platform of WHO to showcase the benefits and future potential of this technology to help clinicians, and to produce better outcomes for women and people with cervices’ health the world over. Screening for cervical cancer is important but at the diagnostic stage it is people with abnormal cell changes that need the most accurate attention. ZedScan uses Electrical Impedance Spectroscopy (EIS) which is a different way to analyse tissue structure changes, and it gives results in real time enabling clinicians to better manage their patients.  People are often anxious, and rightly so, during the examination and we know ZedScan helps alleviate some of that anxiety. The real-world data we have published to date shows the potential of this technology not only across mature healthcare markets but also across developing healthcare markets.”

The event is co-hosted by The Health Innovation Exchange (HIEx), The Defeat-NCD Partnership, Center for Global Health and Development (GHD), Geneva Innovation Movement (GIM) and UNAIDS. This year’s conference will focus on “Leveraging innovations and investments for women’s health”.   The event will bring together key leaders from both public and private sectors around the connecting theme of developing new and innovative models for scaling access to healthcare particularly in the areas of cervical and breast cancer. It will focus on innovations that can address several of the pain-points in prevention, screening, diagnosis, treatment and care for women.

Medway NHS Foundation Trust is the most recent hospital to adopt ZedScan. Their lead clinician for the colposcopy unit, Consultant Obstetrician and Gynaecologist, Ms Sharon Griffin, said; “Zedscan also gives us the ability to confidently rule out disease in many cases, and removes the need for a diagnostic biopsy and unnecessary follow-up appointments. This gives our patients peace of mind and helps us to see more patients more quickly by releasing appointment capacity for other patients.”

How it works:

ZedScan™ is a unique adjunct diagnostic device which uses EIS (Electrical Impedance Spectroscopy) technology to identify cell changes that cannot always be seen with standard colposcopy.

EIS works by measuring 7 key cell parameters, at 14 different frequencies, and resulting spectra helps differentiate the different tissue types (4-6). Using a single-use EIS sensor, ZedScan takes up to 12 readings from around the cervical transformation zone following the application of acetic acid

The readings are processed by an in-built algorithm to quantify the degree of abnormality at each reading site, with the results displayed immediately to support clinical decision making

Following a service evaluation of over 200 patients, the Trust found ZedScan increased the detection of high-grade disease (which has the potential to become cancerous) by 26 per cent and helped inform clinical management decisions. The high sensitivity of the ZedScan device also gives clinicians the confidence to discharge women to surveillance or routine screening when no high-grade disease is indicated.

Zilico are pleased to be supporting the prevention of cervical cancer by providing state-of-art technology to aid clinical decision making at the first visit for patients attending colposcopy. Using patented EIS platform technology, ZedScan is used - as part of colposcopy procedures - to detect cervical abnormalities (pre-cancerous changes) before they develop into cervical cancer.

For further information please contact Helen Trevorrow or Vicky Hague at Green Row on 0794 000 9138 or email helen@greenrow.co.uk .