Brachytherapy firm Theragenics continues to expand its distribution channels. Just days after announcing an agreement with Nycomed Amersham, the Buford, GA-based firm has signed on Imagyn Medical Technologies as a distributor. Imagyn is a minimally invasive and general surgery product provider
Irvine, CA-based Imagyn has signed a five-year, nonexclusive distribution agreement for Theragenics’ TheraSeed, a palladium-103 brachytherapy seed for the treatment of prostate cancer and other solid, localized cancerous tumors. Imagyn will be able to distribute TheraSeed in the U.S., Canada, and Puerto Rico.
TheraSeed will serve as a complement to Imagyn’s isoSTAR, an iodine-125 seed provided to the company by International Isotopes, according to Imagyn chairman, president, and CEO Charles Laverty.
By AuntMinnie.com staff writersSeptember 22, 2000
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