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New Technology for Cervical Cancer Screenings

From the Show: Health Radio
Summary: New technology is available for cervical cancer screenings.
Air Date: 3/4/16
Duration: 10
Host: Melanie Cole, MS
Guest Bio: Kim Stebbings, President of DySIS Medical
Kim StebbingsKim Stebbings brings over 25 years of U.S. medical device sales, marketing and operational experience in multi-national and start-up companies. She spent 16 years with Boehringer Mannheim/Roche Diagnostics where she held multiple positions including P&L responsibility for a $100 million diagnostics business. The balance of her career has been dedicated to leading start-up commercial organizations including BioStar, Inc., a diagnostics company sold to Thermo Electron (NYSE:TMO) and Medingo, Ltd, an Israeli insulin pump company acquired by Roche Holdings AG (ROG.VX). Kim was most recently President of GlycoMark, Inc. a diagnostics subsidiary of Toyota Tsusho America and has a B.S. degree in Biology from St. Lawrence University.

New Technology for Cervical Cancer Screenings
An abnormal pap smear is cause for further investigation. With technological developments, assessment becomes easier and faster.

Colposcopy is a screening procedure that follows an abnormal pap smear. A special solution is applied to the cervix. A colposcope is used to see which areas turn white, indicating abnormal cells. A cervical biopsy may then be necessary.

Medical device expert, Kim Stebbings, joins host Melanie Cole to discuss this new technology.