Lung Cancer Detection using Gold
Disease December 21st, 2009
Lung CANCER become the number one killer disease in Indonesia and the world today. Each year 1.3 million people died in the world because of this disease. As many as 70 percent of sufferers are those who smoke cigarettes. Unfortunately, lung cancer can not be detected since the beginning.
As a result, the new patients with cancer known as tumor spread to other tissues. But, in the days of nano technology as now, the impasse was solved. The experts at the Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa to find and create the detector lung cancer advanced. Tested on 40 healthy people and 50 people who allegedly have cancer, as contained in the edition of the journal Nature Nanotechnology early September 2009, the tool successfully detected a healthy lung and a grown virus.
According to Hossam Haick, researchers who are also senior lecturer at the Faculty of Chemical Engineering Russell Berrie Nanotechnology Institute, the tool was first made in the world. Previous instruments, including those used in medicine is the detection of cancer, which analyzes the carbon from the patient’s breath. Must be inserted into the mouth, possibly mixed with oxygen when analyzed so that the results less accurate.
Hossam-made tools of microchipemas. Chipini posted on the body to detect the amount of carbon expelled when you breathe. The amount that will thrill the gold layer in the chip, and then sends a signal to the computer to generate images. Analysis of carbon substance that will tell if the lung was cancer. In that experiment, accurate because the results deteksinya no different with the results of conventional tools
