Alkem Laboratories has entered into a licensing agreement with Cooper Surgicals, a business unit of the Cooper Companies, Inc., for the medscanc cytobrushes for women's healthcare markets. Cooper Surgicals is a growing speciality medical products unit serving the medical fraternity with high quality products and services. The company will be further fortifying the relationship with Cooper surgicals by expanding the range of products in other healthcare segment.

Alkem has made a foray into the emerging preventive care arena with this partnership. Cytomed the SBU of Alkem Labs Ltd, which has been in the forefront of spreading awareness about cancer prevention and early detection, will be commercialising the Cooper surgical range of products in India.

The initial range of Medscand cytobrushes licensed to Alkem includes Cytobrush Plus Gentle touch and Medschand Pap Perfect spatula range of Easy Spec. Cytobrush Plus Gentle touch is an endocervical cell collector for Chlamydia, HPV and other STD detection, which is proven safe and effective in more than 150 studies. The Medscand Pap Perfect spatula is of Ayre type and used in ectocervical cell collection. Further, Galenica disposable speculum is an vaginal speculum used for pelvic examination and also for smear tests.