28 February 2011

Smartphone May Help Diagnose Cancerous Tumor Within Hour

Your smartphone can do more than you expect. Smartphone is not only tool for communication. This technoloogy can offer you many useful features that supports your daily needs. The Boston Globe reported that the latest cell phone innovation can help you to diagnose yourself. This statement could surpise you.

Scientists at Massachusetts General Hospital have developed brand new smartphone. This portable smartphone has unique ability. You can analyze tissue to determine if a tumour is cancerous with this smartphone. The result of diagnosis can be determined withing hour. You can also see the result on the screen of the phone.

What is the proof of this new invention? Scientist tried this new smartphone on 50 people who had suspicious stomatch tissue. The smartphone can correctly diagnosed 48 of those 50 people.

However, this technology is not perfect. This smartphone is still in very eagle stages. The result of this smartphone is not always promising. It looks like you should use other traditional biopsy methods that take days to produce result rather than use this new smartphone. Instant result is not always accurate.
This new smartphone costs $200. It could be alternative to fight cancerous tumor

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