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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 14, 2020
Filed:
Dec. 02, 2015
Verily Life Sciences Llc, Mountain View, CA (US);
Alberto Clemente Vitari, San Francisco, CA (US);
Andrew Homyk, Belmont, CA (US);
Joshua Simon Klein, Mountain View, CA (US);
Marija Pavlovic, Mountain View, CA (US);
Jerrod Joseph Schwartz, San Francisco, CA (US);
Verily Life Sciences LLC, Mountain View, CA (US);
Abstract
Body-mountable devices are provided to detect the presence or status of a tumor in a body by detecting probes associated with circulating cells of the tumor that travel to subsurface vasculature of the body. The probe enters a tumor and associates with cells of the tumor before the cells metastasize. A wearable body-mountable device can be worn for a protracted period of time to detect the probe associated with circulating tumor cells in the vasculature at low concentrations and/or at low rates. A body-mounted device could detect the presence of such released, tumor-cell-associated probes to determine a presence or status of a tumor in the body.