In the News – Testing Hair to Detect Breast Cancer? – Hair Loss Information by Dr. William Rassman

Snippet from the article:

An Australian company called Fermiscan is in the process of developing a test that could possibly identify a person with breast cancer using about 20 strands of their hair.

The Fermiscan test has shown a 69% accuracy in detecting breast cancer. A study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association showed that mammograms or ultrasounds showed no greater than a 50% chance at detecting breast cancer, and a 78% detection rate when the two were combined.

Read the full article at InventorSpot.com.

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