N160,000 ‘Smart Bra’ Detects bosom Cancer

Lifeline Biotechnologies, the medical technology  company has licensed a “smart bra” known as First Warning Systems that could help women discover if they have bosom cancer. The company says it is  capable not only of identifying bosom tissue abnormalities at their  earliest stages, but can also identify the general location of such  abnormalities in three dimensions to each of the four quadrants of each bosom.

The  bra is based on a novel bosom health screening device and method and could  become available in Europe in 2013 and then in the United States of America  in 2014, at US$ 1,000 (N160,000) for a pair.

Preliminary studies with the novel bra conducted in more  than 650 women, resulted in an average detection of at least 90  percent. Compared with the standard mammogram, the tests averaged 70  percent accuracy.

Experts say while the bra is not intended as an additional step in the bosom cancer screening process, it could be an accurate identifier of early  bosom abnormalities which generate heat via the presence of new blood vessels that nourish the area in question,” they noted.

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