Health · Hardware
CairnSurgical, Inc.
CairnSurgical is a clinical-stage medical device company in Lebanon, New Hampshire, building patient-specific surgical guidance for breast cancer lumpectomy. Its Breast Cancer Locator (BCL) System pairs a 3D-printed, bra-like form molded to each patient's anatomy with an interactive 3D Visualizer derived from supine MRI, giving surgeons a precise blueprint of a tumor's size, shape, depth and edges. The goal is to cut the 20 to 25 percent re-excision rate in breast-conserving surgery toward zero. Spun out of Dartmouth College and Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center in 2015, the company reported 94 percent margin-negative resections in a European study and filed for FDA De Novo clearance in 2026.