Sunday, 28 October 2012

Amazing: Bra that Can Detect Breast Cancer Soon to be Available for Sale at US$ 1,000 (N160,000) for a pair.


, an American based company, has invented a “smart ” called First Warning Systems which could help women discover if they have .
The , which is based on a novel breast health screening device and method could become available in Europe in 2013 and then in the United States of America in 2014, for $ 1,000 (N160,000) for a pair.
Preliminary studies with First Warning Systems were conducted in more than 650 women, resulting in an average detection of at least 90 percent. Compared with the standard mammogram, the tests averaged 70 percent accuracy.
In a release, by Biotechnologies, the medical technology company licensing the observed that the First Warning System is capable not only identifying breast tissue abnormalities at their earliest stages, but can also identify the general location of such abnormalities in three dimensions to each of the four quadrants of each breast.
The release continues: “It is, therefore, not intended as an additional step in the screening process, but as an accurate identifier of early breast abnormalities which generate heat via the presence of new blood vessels that nourish the area in question.”.

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