IRVINE, Calif., Dec. 18, 2008 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- SenoRx, Inc. (Nasdaq:SENO) today announced that the United States Patent and Trademark Office has granted the company its sixth brachytherapy-related patent and fourth patent directly related to its Contura(tm) Multi-Lumen Radiation Balloon (MLB) catheter for the treatment of breast cancer. The new claims allowed in United States Patent No. 7,465,568 add to SenoRx’s current intellectual property relating to asymmetrically irradiating a patient’s breast with the Contura MLB after breast biopsy or lumpectomy procedures.
