[medinformatics] At-Home Breast Cancer Device Tested

[Medical Informatics News]

Researchers at two Philadelphia universities are working on a joint project they say could lead
to an inexpensive, simple device that women could use at home for detecting breast cancer in its earliest stages.
Scientists at Drexel University and the University
of Pennsylvania are developing a battery-operated, hand-held device they say uses lights and detectors to “see”
metabolic changes. From AP/Yahoo News:


The device makes steady low beeps as a woman moves it along her breast. It uses a type of almost invisible light
that travels deep into breast tissue; as the machine nears a tumor the beep tone gets higher, and as it moves away the
tone gets lower. A microchip stores the information on the size and location of the tumor as the patient performs the
self-examination. That information can later be analyzed on a computer by the patient’s doctor.

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