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this scientist can catch cancer just by
smelling your breath
let me tell you his incredible story
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see when i was a kid i thought if you
get cancer it means you're dead it is
one of the deadliest diseases and more
than 10 million people die from cancer
every year but what if there was a way
to catch cancer before it spreads in our
body that's what this guy is building hi
nice daily my name is hassam hayek and
i'm a professor and a technion and i
have made a device that can find cancer
using your breath only
professor hassam is a palestinian
scientist from israel just like me
his life changed when he found out his
best friend had cancer when i was a phd
student my good friend called ellie was
diagnosed with cancer and i was very
touched by seeing his suffering from the
treatment of cancer
that's when he decided to dedicate his
life to medicine and find a new way to
treat cancer today you could have cancer
in your body and you don't even know it
because there are no symptoms
so professor hassam thought instead of
trying to find cancer after it spreads
why not catch it before it spreads
i have read epocratus has used his nose
in order to smell many types of disease
from breath he learned that diseases can
change the smell of your breath
in fact dogs can detect cancer and other
diseases just by smelling a person's
urine and breath sample so professor
hassam built a device that works just
like a dog's nose
this is the nano's device
here is how it works in our body when a
cancer cell grows it releases tiny
molecules that try to escape your body
these molecules travel to the lungs
where they mix with the air our lungs
release so if you have a cancer cell
growing inside your body the air you
release will have these cancer molecules
and that's where nanos comes in
when you exhale into the nanos the
device will study the breath using
nanotechnology and ai it will look for
those tiny cancer molecules and if it
catches them it will signal and alert
and that's how this machine can tell if
you have cancer or not even before any
of the symptoms show
just based on your breath
when we have started our research on
breath analysis we have collected the
breath from healthy and from diseased
people one of the healthy cases has told
us that he knows that he has no disease
and that he has done a city before few
months and he's sure that he's healthy
nevertheless when we have done the
breath analyzer using our device we have
discovered signs for cancer a few months
later on it was discovered that there is
a tumor
inside
the lung
before you had to go to a doctor to get
tested for cancer and millions of people
don't do that or can't afford to
with the nose you can test for cancers
alzheimer's parkinson's right from your
home even if you live in a remote
village in ethiopia
this is the grand vision of professor
hassan these systems are so cheap and
affordable that can be utilized by every
person whether poor or rich
his device is still a prototype and it's
in production and within three years he
says we should be able to get this
device in our hands we hope we can
afford equal opportunity
for their health management and
treatment
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professor hassam gives me hope and gives
you hope that it is finally possible to
beat cancer and beat every other disease
in the world
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