RICHMOND, BC, April 16 /CNW/ - Xillix Technologies Corp. (TSX: XLX - News) today announced the appointment of a new board of directors consisting of David L. Tonken, Gregory B. Matthews, Roderick W. Kirkham and Dr. Ian Forrester. The Board appointed Mr. Tonken as Chief Executive Officer and President and Mr. Matthews as Chief Financial Officer and Corporate Secretary.
The Company is subject to an order of the Court which provides protection under the Companies’ Creditors Arrangement Act.
About Xillix
Xillix Technologies Corp. is a Canadian medical device company and the world leader in fluorescence endoscopy for improved cancer detection. Xillix’s currently approved device, Onco-LIFE(TM), incorporates fluorescence and white-light endoscopy in a single device that has been developed for the detection and localization of lung and gastrointestinal (GI) cancers. An international multicenter lung cancer clinical trial of Onco-LIFE demonstrated a 325% per-lesion improvement in the detection of early lung cancer (moderate-severe dysplasia and carcinoma in situ) and a 250% per-patient improvement compared to white-light alone. Onco-LIFE is approved for sale in the United States for the lung application and in Europe, Canada and Australia for both lung and GI applications. The Company also recently announced that it has developed a new product, LIFE Luminus(TM), designed to allow fluorescence imaging of the colon using conventional video endoscope technology.
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The Company is listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange under the trading symbol “XLX”.
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