Could this be the end of the mammogram? Pioneering fingertip sweat test done from home could replace painful breast cancer tests, new study suggests

Finger sweat allows scientists to detect breast cancer with 98 per cent accuracy

The method could eventually replace mammograms once trails are progressed

By Ffion Haf
20 February 2023

Pioneering fingertip sweat tests done from home could replace painful breast cancer tests, a new study suggests.

Professor Simona Francese discovered that the sweat on a person's finger can allow scientists to mark the presence of breast cancer with 98 per cent accuracy because of the protein it contains.

Over the last 15 years, the expert worked alongside the police on a method of collecting information from fingerprints left at crime scenes, and by doing so, discovered the cancer detection technique.

Based upon a study of 15 women, they found that the simple method could detect the disease and its severity and only required the person to smudge their fingertips onto a sample plate.

A team of researchers from Sheffield Hallam University who worked with Professor Francese concluded that in time the process could replace mammograms once they have been taken to larger trials.

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