Fermiscan
New Australian Technology: Detecting Breast Cancer With Hair
Published in Women's Health Weekly, July 3rd, 2008
A recent study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association(1) (US study), showed that breast screening using either mammography or ultrasound achieved no greater than a 50% sensitivity at detecting breast cancer. A sensitivity of 78% was achieved when techniques were combined. Fermiscan recently completed a similarly sized clinical trial(2) designed to compare results from current screening methods of mammography,...
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