A wearable ultrasound scanner could detect breast cancer earlier – MIT Media Lab

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• theKalash@feddit.ch ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Does it have to be wearable? Wouldn’t it be enough to have one at home? Sure, it’s an agressive cancer, but it’s not acting that fast?

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  • NeoNachtwaechter@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    The device needs to get positioned at 6 repeatable places. Usually the doc does that, but now the patients are doing it to themselves.

    This bra and the white frame does the job. You don’t want to have tatooed crosshairs there on your boob.

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• TwoGems@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  No American could afford to even wear it temporaily. They’d charge like 1 mil an hour.

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• roguetrick@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  This is going to just increase false positives and unnecessary biopsies. This level of surveillance is not beneficial.

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  • Abstract8188@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    No one is going to get a biopsy after testing positive once. A positive test would mean you go to a doctor for a proper mammogram, THEN maybe a biopsy.

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    • roguetrick@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      That's still an increased level of surveillance that is going against current recommendations. Unnecessary mammograms still result in unnecessary biopsies. You could use it for increased monitoring to detect growth I guess, but I doubt it's capable of that sort of resolution.

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