According to the American Cancer Society, breast cancer is the second leading cause of cancer death amongst women in the US. However, a new fingerprint test could indicate whether one has the deadly illness, even better than a traditional mammogram. Veuer’s Tony Spitz has the details.
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00:00According to the American Cancer Society, breast cancer is the second leading cause of cancer death amongst women in the U.S.
00:07However, a new fingerprint test could indicate whether one has the deadly illness.
00:11Even better than a traditional mammogram.
00:13Researchers at Sheffield Hallam University have figured out a way to essentially read the sweat and molecular makeup of one's fingerprint.
00:20This is the study's lead researcher, Professor Simona Francese.
00:23Her background is in criminal forensics, but while working in that field, she began to cross over into medical diagnostics.
00:30Finding some interesting things about fingerprints and the proteins within.
00:33What we do in effect is detecting those proteins and the different levels of expression of those proteins,
00:40the different patterns of expression tell us whether a patient has a benign pathology or has early cancer or is metastatic.
00:49Or we use artificial intelligence to make sense of those mass spectrometry data.
00:54And by simply swiping a fingerprint, the researchers say they can tell a cancer-positive sample from a control sample with high accuracy.
01:01What's more, the test can be run off-site and requires no painful procedure like a mammogram.
01:06Meaning not only will this procedure make breast cancer tests easier and cheaper for women,
01:10but it will also make potentially life-saving screenings available to everyone.