SNIFFPHONE: Breakthrough 'Cancer Diagnosis' from Single Breath with 90% Accuracy
http://bit.ly/1zfNXza “Current cancer diagnosis techniques are ineffective and impractical,” said star academic and project leader Hossam Haick of Haifa’s Technion Institute in an interview with the Times of Israel. “This technology could facilitate faster therapeutic intervention, replacing expensive and time-consuming clinical follow-up that would eventually lead to the same intervention.” According to the World Health Organization, 1.5 million people die from lung cancer around the world each year, and the hard-to-diagnose illness is often detected at an inoperable state, once it has spread to other internal organs and systems. “Currently, the patient arrives for diagnosis when the symptoms of the sickness have already begun to appear,” said 38-year-old Haick, when comparing his system to traditional techniques. “Months pass before a real analysis in completed. And the process requires complicated and expensive equipment such as CT and mammography imaging devices. Each machine cost...