DIY Cancer Test: Cancer Scare Pushed Young Physicist to Design Her Own Breast Exam
DIY Cancer Test: Cancer Scare Pushed Young Physicist to Design Her Own Breast Exam
A few years ago, Ileana Hancu, a young physicist at GE Global Research, left her lab for a routine physical exam and came back with troubling news: the doctor apparently felt a lump in Hancu's breast. What followed was an odyssey through the achievements of modern medicine, from mammography, to ultrasound and near biopsy.