Saturday, February 14, 2009

Guided Therapeutics, Inc. Reports Preliminary Findings from FDA Pivotal Clinical Trial

Non-invasive technology finds disease missed by Pap test

ATLANTA--(HSMN NewsFeed)--Guided Therapeutics, Inc. (GT) (Pink Sheets: GTHP ) today announced that its LightTouch™ non-invasive cervical cancer detection technology properly identified cervical disease missed by Pap tests and conventional pathology in a multi-site Food and Drug Administration (FDA) pivotal clinical trial. Based on the outcome of the study, GT plans to submit the trial results to the FDA as part of the Premarket Approval (PMA) application for the LightTouch.

“We are very pleased that the results of the study indicate that the LightTouch is capable of discovering disease that may be missed by conventional cervical disease detection,” said Mark L. Faupel, Ph.D., GT President and CEO at the Southeastern Medical Device Association annual conference in Atlanta. “Based on the study results, we believe that our technology also demonstrates the capability to detect cervical disease early, when it is most effectively treated.”

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