First Warning, the breast cancer sensing bra company, has changed its strategy. They will now use the same temperature-fluctuation sensors from their smart bra in a device inserted into one’s existing bra. The data will be sent to a user’s smartphone.
The sensor finds cancer by detecting tiny metabolic temperature changes caused by cancerous cells in a tumor. The temperature readings are sent back to a global library where they’re run through a proprietary algorithm. Then the results are sent back to a user’s phone.
In small trials, the device has had a 74 percent correlation with mammography and may work better than a mammogram in patients in the early stages of cancer or with dense breast tissue.