Now, a machine that can smell cancer

[GoFlyKiteNow]

Now, a machine that can smell cancer
ANI, Feb 21, 2010, 12.16pm

Brainchild of academics at Cranfield University in Bedfordshire, the Breathotron detects chemical changes in a patient's breath, which doctors say could show they have a tumour and give an earlier diagnosis than is possible now, reports The Mirror.

Professor Hugh Barr, who is leading the research, said, "This is a very exciting development which could dramatically influence the way cancer is diagnosed in years to come."

"Instead of using our eyes, the Breathotron allows us to use an 'enhanced nose' to try to sniff out the early stages of cancer."

The invention follows medical research papers that concluded that cancer cells give off an odour.

 

[Glaringly]

Perhaps it's much more cheaper and effective to train a dog to sniff out the odour and it can be your constant companion.

 

[ahleebabasingaporethief]

Perhaps it's much more cheaper and effective to train a dog to sniff out the odour and it can be your constant companion.

Bro already have such dogs on the mkt liao since 2006.


Dogs as good as screening for cancer detection

• 11:24 09 January 2006 by Kurt Kleiner

<!-- pgtop --> Dogs do as well as state-of-the-art screening tests at sniffing out people with lung or breast cancer. The research raises the possibility that trained dogs could detect cancers even earlier and might some day supplement or even replace mammograms and CT scans in the laboratory.
Two previous studies have shown that dogs seem to be able to sniff out melanomas and bladder cancer. The idea is not outrageous. Cancer patients have been shown to have traces of chemicals - like alkanes and benzene derivatives - in their breath, and other studies have shown dogs can detect chemicals in concentrations as small as a few parts per trillion.
So researchers at the Pine Street Foundation in San Anselmo, California, US, selected three Labrador retrievers and two Portuguese water dogs with no previous training, and over several weeks trained them using breath samples that had been exhaled into tubes by cancer patients.
To test how well the dogs had learned, they used a new batch of samples and had the dogs attempt to distinguish among 55 lung cancer patients, 31 breast cancer patients and 83 healthy controls. The patients had all had their cancers confirmed by biopsy. The tests were double-blind, so neither the dog handlers nor the experimenters knew which tubes were which.
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The dogs correctly detected 99% of the lung cancer samples, and made a mistake with only 1% of the healthy controls. With breast cancer, they correctly detected 88% of the positive samples, and made a mistake on only 2% of the controls.
The work is convincing, says James C Walker, director of the Florida State University Sensory Research Institute in Tallahassee, US. In 2004 Walker and colleagues showed that dogs could sniff out melanomas. He says that the next step is to see if dogs are really detecting cancer, or if they might be sensing a more general disease symptom, such as one that comes from inflammation.
Walker says he would like, eventually, to see a long, large-scale trial designed to test whether dogs can detect cancer even earlier than standard screening tests.
Journal reference: Integrative Cancer Therapies (vol 5, p 1)
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[kingrant]

I am waiting for a dog that can cure cancer. What's up Dog?

 

[sodoMee]

I am waiting for a dog that can cure cancer. What's up Dog?

dog can't cure cancers..

but God can!

 

[AvalanCh3]

the problem is something i believe sickness is like a punishment to man-kind, everytime when a cure is discover, a new virus would spread.

 

[downgrader]

a lot of modern sickness are result of rapid industrialisation introducing pollution

china for example has a high rate of deformed babies because of this, which is even more scary than in africa due to malnutrition

there are also some diseases created in the lab for biological warfare

sad that in this day and age, humanity is still so backward in thought and spend so much money on arms

 

[johnny333]

a lot of modern sickness are result of rapid industrialisation introducing pollution

china for example has a high rate of deformed babies because of this, which is even more scary than in africa due to malnutrition

China is paying the price of industrialisation.
Same thing with the US where you have lots of illnesses like obesity, diabetes, cancers,...

Obesity & diabetes is caused by restaurants serving large portions of processed foods. These foods contain alot of bad stuff like trans fats, sugars, bleached flour, chemicals,... If you read any food label there always "permitted xyz" contained in many foods.

All those permitted chemicals build up in the body. People get one of those strange illnesses when older. Coincidence or is it related to these "permitted chemicals"

Spore is no better. You have all those cars poisoning the atmosphere. The yearly haze, cough, cough. Don't expect the authorities to do anything as no profit in good health :(

 

[antibastard]

Can they invent a robot that sniff out bastards? Better equipped with a gun and automatically shoot the bastards without question.

This is then called the Bastard Terminator.