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LightUP: a pill-sized imaging device for the early detection of oesophageal cancer

Description: Each year, 600,000 people are diagnosed with oesophageal cancer and 75% die within 5 years after receiving this diagnosis. Early detection dramatically improves survival rates. Screening is offered to people with Barrett’s oesophagus, a disease linked to a higher oesophageal cancer risk, but it misses 25% of early cancer and is expensive. We created the LightUP, a pill-sized imaging device that will detect at least 25% more early cancer than current screening, at a lower cost. LightUP will improve the survival chances of screened patients and could allow the expansion of the screening program to more at-risk patients.

Funder: Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek

Funding type: grant

Funder scheme: Faculty of Impact - 2023/2024 Life Sciences and Health

Start date: 2024-09-01

Investigator: Anouk Post

Institution: Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

Topic: Esophageal Cancer Research and Treatment

Subfield: Surgery

Field: Medicine

Domain: Health Sciences

Funded outputs count: 0

Funder award ID: FoI.2023.018

OpenAlex ID: G5405206229