Disposable Device Treats Severe Side-Effect of Cancer

BrainCool AB, a Swedish medical device company that specializes in medical cooling technology for therapeutic hypothermia (brain cooling) and oncology, has completed patient recruitment in the Scandinavian multi-center pivotal trial of 180 patients to investigate its Cooral® System for prevention of oral mucositis (OM), one of the most debilitating side-effects of both standard and high-dose chemotherapeutic oncology treatments.