Novocure (NASDAQ: NVCR) announced today that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved its new Head Flexible Electrode (HFE) transducer arrays for use with Optune Gio® for the treatment of adult patients with glioblastoma multiforme (GBM).
Optune Gio is a wearable, portable device that produces alternating electric fields known as Tumor Treating Fields (TTFields), which are delivered through non-invasive, wearable arrays. TTFields exert physical forces on the electrically charged components of dividing cancer cells, which disrupt the rapid cell division exhibited by cancer cells.