Still testing, no way to get around the mammograms yet, but this sounds nice!  BD 

A test developed by Australian scientists which promises to be able to pick up breast cancer from a hair sample, could be commercially available later this year.

The test which has been developed by the technology company Fermiscan is an X-ray diffraction test able to detect structural changes in hair collagen with the use of a synchrotron.

Fermiscan says in preliminary trials in 2,000 women, the test was found to have an overall predictive accuracy of 69% for breast cancer.According to the company the accuracy of the test increased to 75% when hair samples affected by treatments such as perming and dyeing were excluded.The trial involved women who had been referred to radiologists by their GP for a mammogram.

Simple, painless hair test detects breast cancer

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