Susan Stone is the creator and presenter of It’s a Jungle, exploring the people, science, and ideas shaping our health and wellbeing. Here she investigates the breakthrough science and tech that’s reshaping breast cancer detection and treatment.
What if you could check for breast cancer at home in a few minutes? What if a breath test at your
GP’s office could catch changes between mammograms? What if your doctor knew within weeks –
not months – whether your treatment was working?
These aren’t hypotheticals. They’re technologies in development and early testing right now. And for
Irish women – one in seven of whom will develop breast cancer in their lifetime – they could change
everything.
But there’s a gap between what’s possible and what’s available. Right now, only about half of
eligible women…