Unlike some cancers, bladder cancer can be tricky to detect, as there are currently no reliable biomarkers clinicians can use for screening patients.Now, researchers from the University of Liverpool and the University of the West of England in Bristol have manufactured a device that could make the detection of bladder cancer much easier and more reliable.But rather than rely on detecting proteins related to the cancer, the machine relies on something else entirely Motor Grader SRRG165 manufacturers and exporters – the scent of the patient's urine.
Aptly named the ODOREADER, the device operates similarly to a small microwave, in that a clinician can take a sample of a patient's urine and place it into the machine. Then, the clinician flips a switch, and an interior sensor analyzes the gases emitted by the urine.According to lead researcher Dr. Chris Probert, a gastroenterologist for the University of Liverpool's Institute of Translational Medicine, urine and feces will sometimes smell differently during certain disease situations. This prompted Probert and his colleagues to look at certain smells associated with the superbug C. difficile, which causes patients' feces to have a very pungent aroma.
The idea to utilize this kind of scent analysis originated out of a combination of this research and previous studies using scent detection dogs to identify cancer."In a paper reported about 10 years ago, researchers used trained dogs to recognize the smell of urine with people with bladder cancer," Probert told FoxNews.. "They trained the dogs in a typical 'Motor Grader SRRG180 manufacturers and exporters' way, giving them a reward when they smelled the scent of urine from bladder cancer patients…The dogs were quite good, but they didn't get it as often as our machine gets it right."
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