The exhibition ‘The Italy of Patents: Successful Inventions and Innovations’, organised by the Italian Ministry of Enterprise and Made in Italy (MIMIT), to celebrate both the 140th anniversary of the founding of the Italian Patent and Trademark Office and the 550th anniversary of the publication of the first Patent Statute, promulgated by the Republic of Venice in 1474, was inaugurated at Palazzo Piacentini in Rome. The aim of the exhibition is to recount the past and present through the impact of over 100 industrial invention patents on Italian society and in the international context. It compares different generations of innovators:…
Interview by Paola Brambilla with professor Silvio Abati, responsible for the Departmental Center of Pathology and Oral Medicine of the Department of Dentistry at the IRCCS Ospedale San Raffaele in Milan. Published in Il dentista moderno, June 2024, pp. 16-18. Featuring Studium Genetics SG-OCRA test. Download the full article (Italian). [Unofficial, automatic translation] It's the time needed to perform an accurate and complete examination of the oral cavity, a simple routine gesture that every dentist and dental hygienist can offer to contribute to the prevention of oral cancer, detecting suspicious lesions to intervene early, before the tumor develops. The stakes…
New video with English subtitles about the sampling procedure for the SG-OCRA test for oral cancer early diagnosis. The desquamation cells of the oral mucosa should be collected by gently brushing with rotational and translational movements for at least 10 times on the lesion identified by the practitioner. Avoid areas of necrosis, absence of epithelium, or spontaneous bleeding, in order to limit contamination with blood from the collection as much as possible. Use gauze to absorb any blood if present prior to cell collection. The brush with the patient's mucosal specimen should be placed in the appropriate tube and sent…
Professor Giorgio Gastaldi, head of the Maxillofacial Prosthetic Rehabilitation Unit at the IRCCS San Raffaele Hospital and associate professor of Odontostomatologic Diseases at the Vita-Salute San Raffaele University, was interviewed in the Tg4 medicina - Rete 4 – Tg Com24 column on 11 May 2024, to talk about tumours affecting the oral cavity and the Studium Genetics test that San Raffaele has adopted in clinical practice. Link to TG4 website (Italian) [Machine-translated, unofficial audio transcription] Like every Saturday, it's time for our medicine column. – Good morning and welcome to the TG4 medicine column. Today we're talking about oral cancers,…
Studium Genetics will participate in the 110th Congress of the Italian Society of Otolaryngology (SIO) to be held in Bergamo from 22 to 25 May 2024. Prof. Luca Morandi, co-founder and inventor, will present the patented SG-OCRA Technology for the early diagnosis of Oral and Nasal Tumours.
A Test For The Early Diagnosis Of Nasal Cancers Head-neck neoplasms can benefit from epigenetics Sinonasal cancers are rare entities comprising 5% of all cancers of the head and neck region, with an annual incidence of about 1 case per 100,000 population worldwide, accounting for 0.5-1% of all malignancies in the Western population. Sinonasal squamous cell carcinoma (SNSCC) and intestinal-type adenocarcinoma (ITAC) account for 80% of all sinonasal cancers. They occur most commonly in adult and elderly men, with a male:female ratio of 2:1 in SNSCC and up to 6:1 in ITAC. The male predominance of sinonasal tumors is probably…
