Do-it-yourself breast ultrasound
A device that can be incorporated into a bra could help people check for early-stage tumors between routine mammograms.
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A device that can be incorporated into a bra could help people check for early-stage tumors between routine mammograms.
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...
The survival rate for breast cancer is nearly 100 percent when diagnosed in its earliest stages.
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.