Harvard scientists have created an inexpensive system for the early diagnosis of cancer

Yes, really interesting news - a joint team of scientists from Harvard and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology created a portable system for early detection of cancer. The remarkable price of this system is only $ 200, probably it is the most inexpensive of all such systems - because the detection of cancer is complicated by the number of varieties of cancer and the complexity of the analysis methods.

The portable system is a scanner that "uses antibodies and magnetic particles to search for cancer markers in cells taken for analysis." Tissue cells are taken for analysis with a needle, not by surgery. Diagnostic results of tissue samples can be transferred to any mobile device, for example iPhone (how can one do without it) by using special software. The analysis is only an hour, so the patient can immediately find out if he has cancer or not.

By the way, the probability of error is only 4% in this case, while the probability of error during the analysis by the usual method is 16%. In addition, the usual tissue analysis technique takes much longer.

This development is not a concept, but a real device, which, as its creators hope, will soon arrive at hospitals in various countries. Such a system is useful for hospitals in developed countries, and especially hospitals in third world countries, where the diagnosis of cancer is difficult due to the lack of necessary equipment and drugs for this type of analysis.

Via Dvice