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Probe linked to smartphone found effective in diagnosing oral cancer

Publish date: April 25, 2018

 

REPORTING FROM ASLMS 2018


Dr. Petra Wilder-Smith, professor and director of dentistry at the University of California, Irvine

Dr. Petra Wilder-Smith

In the not-too-distant future, she predicted that patients could use the device to self-monitor their disease. “That means we can just tell patients to take a photo of their tongue, for example,” Dr. Wilder-Smith said. “Imagine that the calendar on your phone pings a message every 3 months to ‘take a picture of your tongue and upload it to this link.’ You have self-monitoring. For the first time, it allows ethical and effective monitoring of high-risk populations in a way that we can afford.”

The study won an award for best overall clinical abstract at the meeting. Dr. Wilder-Smith reported having no financial disclosures. The project was supported with funding from the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering and the Beckman Foundation.

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