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How the Monarch Platform Is Helping Physicians with Lung Cancer Diagnosis

Since receiving FDA clearance, the Monarch Platform has been installed at several hospitals to assist pulmonology teams in diagnosing small, hard-to-reach nodules in the periphery of the lungs. Our ultimate goal with the Monarch Platform is to enable pulmonologists to provide a quicker, more accurate diagnosis to patients so that they may begin treatment if needed.

To date, physicians have performed over 1,000 bronchoscopic procedures with the Monarch Platform. Below are a few of the doctors and hospitals that have been featured in the press for their use of the platform in research studies and patient diagnosis.

Dr. Kyle Hogarth, Director of Bronchoscopy at University of Chicago Medicine

Dr. Hogarth served as a consultant for Auris to develop the Monarch Platform, providing clinical feedback during the development of the platform. He also participated in an independent study to evaluate the feasibility and safety of the platform in patients needed a bronchoscopic biopsy. Dr. Hogarth believes this technology will help diagnose lung cancer in the early stages, saying of the platform “I can get out now to new regions of the lung and because of the flexibility of the device I can get to spots I couldn’t get to before.”

Read more about Dr. Hogarth’s involvement with the development of the Monarch Platform:

• New device helps doctors diagnose lung cancer with minimally-invasive procedure
• Independent Feasibility Study Demonstrates High Navigation Success with Auris Health’s Monarch™ Platform for Robotic-Assisted Bronchoscopy

Dr. Alexander Chen, Director of Interventional Pulmonology at Washington University of St. Louis

Dr. Chen participated in an ACCESS study and ongoing BENEFIT study of the Monarch Platform. He presented the results of the ACCESS study at the CHEST 2018 Meeting, which found that the Monarch Platform could successfully biopsy tissue with high accuracy in a cadaveric model. The goal of the BENEFIT study is to assess the feasibility and safety of using the Monarch Platform to aid in the diagnosis of peripheral lung nodules, and included the first in-human study of the platform.

Read more about Dr. Chen’s work with the Monarch Platform:

• Auris Health Announces Results from Study of Monarch™ Platform at CHEST 2018 Late-Breaking Abstracts
• Auris Health Announces Early Results from First-In-Human Study of Monarch™ Platform

Taft Center for Clinical Research, El Camino Hospital, Mountain View, CA

El Camino Hospital was the first institution in the United States to use the Monarch Platform for bronchoscopy. Dr. Ganesh Krishna, who performed the first Monarch procedure at the hospital as part of a clinical trial, said that the platform is a needed “paradigm shift” in the way lung disease is diagnosed. “Since the robotic bronchoscope has the ability to travel deeper into the lung and precisely guide a biopsy instrument to even the most difficult nodules, the technology offers the potential to diagnose lung cancer at an earlier stage,” he said of the platform.

Read more about El Camino Hospital’s use of the Monarch Platform:

• El Camino Hospital Breaks New Ground with Monarch Platform
• Monarch Platform's First In-Human Use in US Performed

Dr. Stephen Kovacs, Co-Director of Comprehensive Lung Center, Erie, PA

“We chose the Monarch Platform because, in our opinion, it’s lead to the next evolution in our ability to diagnose lung cancer.”

Dr. Daniel Nader, Interventional Pulmonologist & Chief of Staff, Cancer Treatment Centers of America®, Tulsa, OK

“I chose the Monarch Platform for our Interventional Pulmonary suite because it had the technology that included vision at the distal end that gave us opportunities to do the diagnostic testing that we needed to do to diagnose lung cancer at the early stage.”

Dr. Omar Ibrahim, Director of Interventional Pulmonology & Thoracic Oncology, UConn Health, Farmington, CT

“The advent of the Monarch Platform allows us to get as close as we can to the lesion, to maintain visualization in the airway the whole time, and this allows us to get a diagnosis and move forward with the patient’s care.”