An anonymous reader writes "BBC news is reporting a new handheld scanner that can detect cancers in patients. In clinical trials at a hospital in Milan, the scanner was able to correctly identify 93% of prostate cancer patients whose condition was later confirmed by a biopsy operation."
I wonder if you could get this to work with flatbed scanners. It would make a great excuse to give to your boss/parent/professor...
"No, honestly sir, I was scanning myself for colon cancer - see this slashdot article? Umm, no I don't know anything about the emails with odd picture attachments my co-workers have been getting. It must be an unrelated incident."
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Pretty soon, the'll take the detector one step further -- rather than being hand-held, it will be integrated into the hand
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I wonder if you could get this to work with flatbed scanners. It would make a great excuse to give to your boss/parent/professor...
"No, honestly sir, I was scanning myself for colon cancer - see this slashdot article? Umm, no I don't know anything about the emails with odd picture attachments my co-workers have been getting. It must be an unrelated incident."