MIT's wearable ultrasound device could detect breast cancer at early stages
Using an attachable patch to the bra, the wearable ultrasound cancer scanner developed by MIT researchers takes images of the breast tissue.
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Using an attachable patch to the bra, the wearable ultrasound cancer scanner developed by MIT researchers takes images of the breast tissue.
USA: Researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have designed an ultrasound device that could allow people to detect tumours when they are still in their early stages. It could...
When breast cancer is diagnosed in the earliest stages, the survival rate is nearly 100 percent. However, for tumors detected in later stages, that rate drops to around 25 percent.
The new device could allow more frequent monitoring of patients at high risk for breast cancer.
Senior author and MIT professor Canan Dagdeviren said the device will aim to increase the survival rate of interval breast cancer to 98pc.