Mexican Student Fits Bra with App to Detect Breast Cancer

Mexican Student Fits Bra with App to Detect Breast Cancer

Mexico City: A device made of a brassiere cup fitted with a mobile application, developed by a Mexican student, is designed to be an ally of mammograms for the timely detection of breast cancer in women with very dense breast tissue and in those under age 40. “The idea started after my mother had to deal twice with that illness. She had her breasts removed and almost lost her life because of a bad diagnosis,” Julian Rios, inventor of Eva, the first person, non-invasive method of evaluating the risk of breast cancer, told Efe news.

Eva is a cup that goes inside a bra and with a mobile app begins its exploration. In just five minutes it can determine whether or not a woman is at risk of breast cancer. The device functions through an analysis of thermal patterns in the mammary gland and focuses on women with very dense breast tissue, as well as on women under ages 35-40. The idea was to find a procedure more certain than self-exploration and less dangerous than mammograms, “since the device generates nothing in the way of heat or radiation, nor is it painful since it doesn’t squeeze the breast”, Rios said. (IANS)

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