Profound Medical Announces Second Quarter 2024 Financial Results

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TORONTO, Aug. 08, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Profound Medical Corp. (NASDAQ:PROF; TSX:PRN) (“Profound” or the “Company”), a commercial-stage medical device company that develops and markets customizable, incision-free therapies for the ablation of diseased tissue, today reported financial results for the second quarter ended June 30, 2024. Unless specified otherwise, all amounts in this press release are expressed in U.S. dollars and are presented in accordance with International Financial Reporting Standards as issued by the International Accounting Standards Board.

Business Highlights

  • The TULSA-PRO? systems installed base grew from 53 at the end of Q1-2024 to 57 as of the end of Q2-2024; Profound continues to expect that to grow to 75 TULSA-PRO? systems this year.

  • Profound continued to see a wide variety of prostate disease patients treated by its TULSA-PRO? customers in the second quarter of 2024:

    • 73% were treated for prostate cancer, 15% were hybrid patients suffering from both prostate cancer and benign prostatic hyperplasia (“BPH”), 8% were salvage, and 4% were men with BPH only;

    • For cancer grade, 5% were GG1, 50% were GG2, 34% were GG3, and 11% were GG4 & GG5;

    • In terms of ablation, 50% were whole gland; 29% were sub-total but more than half the gland; and 21% were hemi-ablations or focal therapy; and

  • For prostate size, 6% were < 20cc; 45% were 20 – 40cc; 30% were 40-60cc; 12% were 60-100cc; and 7% were over 100cc.

  • In May 2024, Profound received U.S. Food and Drug Administration (“FDA”) clearance for its second TULSA-AI module, Contouring Assistant, a machine learning-based prostate segmentation tool designed to assist in efficiently delineating the prostate and target patient volume. The Company continues to develop its third TULSA-AI module, TULSA-BPH, for use in conjunction with the TULSA-PRO? system and expects to provide additional details on that later this year.

  • In July 2024, the U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) issued its proposed outpatient prospective payment system (OPPS) reimbursement rule for the three new CPT? Category 1 codes and their descriptors covering the TULSA procedure, with the final rule anticipated in November 2024, which will become effective on January 1, 2025.

  • The ongoing Level 1 CAPTAIN trial comparing the TULSA procedure to radical prostatectomy in men with localized prostate cancer remains on track to complete patient enrollment by the end of this year, and Profound anticipates beginning to report interim data from this post-market study in the first half of 2025.