Novel ‘smart’ bra can detect breast cancer

Houston: An 18-year-old male in Mexico has grown a ‘smart’ bra integrated with sensors that can detect early signs of breast cancer, an allege that could save millions of lives.

The bra, grown by Julian Rios Cantu, has to be ragged for usually an hour a week, so it does not meddle with daily life. It has 200 sensors that map a aspect of a breast as good as texture, colour and temperature, and send a information to a mechanism or smartphone app. The information is afterwards processed by synthetic intelligence. Heat sensors are means to detect blood flow, that mostly suggests that blood is feeding cancer cells.

Rios Cantu was desirous to invent it after his mother’s breast cancer resulted in dismissal of her breasts after years battling a disease, ‘The Telegraph’ reported. Detecting breast cancer early is essential for diagnosis though mostly relies on self-examination.

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