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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
National
Joe Smith

Painful breast cancer examination could be replaced by fingertip sweat tests in future

Painful and intrusive breast cancer tests could soon be a thing of the past, replaced with a simple, painless home test kit, a new study reveals.

The new tests, based on research by Professor Simona Francese, could tell if a person is suffering from the disease from something as simple as a fingerprint.

Professor Francese has discovered that the sweat on a person's finger can indicate the presence of breast cancer with 98 percent accuracy.

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