VIDEO – A young Mexican has designed a bra with sensors that can screen for signs of breast cancer.
He is only 18 years old but already has great ingenuity. A young man has just won the first prize of Global Student Entrepreneur Awards (GSEA), a huge competition that stirs up and rewards the ideas of young entrepreneurs from around the world. That which emanates from the brain of Julián Ríos Cantú, winner of this edition, could constitute a great advance for women’s health.
Indeed, the young Mexican has developed a bra capable of detecting breast cancer. Equipped with some 200 sensors, the biotechnological underwear estimates the texture, temperature and color of the skin of the breasts, thus allowing continuous monitoring of the first signs that should alert and encourage a mammogram to be performed.
Diagnosis 2.0
The garment should only be worn for an hour a week to be effective, not all the time. This allows the woman who uses it to obtain regular measurements and to check that there are no alterations in the markers.
The bra collects all this information then transmits it by bluetooth to an application which analyzes it using an algorithm. After that, the diagnosis is sent to the owner of the bra as well as to her doctor.
Maternal inspiration
Julián Ríos Cantú had the idea of making this bra inspired by his mother, who twice suffered from breast cancer which led to a double mastectomy. The young man received a check for 20,000 euros to develop his invention, which does not replace a mammogram, but which could ultimately revolutionize breast cancer screening.
In France, this pathology kills 12,000 women every year. Detected early, it is nevertheless the cancer from which we die the least.
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