Creo Medical Group plc announced progress with its MicroBlate Flex device. Professor Pallav Shah and Dr Christopher Orton, of the Royal Brompton Hospital, have become the first specialists in the world to perform a robotic guided microwave ablation of lung tissue in the same sitting as a diagnostic procedure. Creo's MicroBlate Flex device was used to perform the procedure.

In a recent announcement, Professor Shah and his team reported that microwave ablation was used to ablate a 27mm cancerous nodule in a patient's lung. The procedure took place at the Royal Brompton Hospital in London and is reported to have taken 3 minutes.