WATCH: Israeli company invents radiation-free lung imaging system

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Israeli company Deep Breeze has invented a non-invasive radiation free lung imaging system that uses Vibration Response Imaging to build up a real-time picture of the lung.

The technology, which some are calling the biggest breakthrough since ultrasound, can be used to diagnose cancer, asthma and other pulmonary diseases. Sales will begin in the US shortly.




WATCH: Israeli company invents radiation-free lung imaging system - Haaretz - Israel News

 

[editec]

Great news.

 

[jillian]

Israel is also ahead in neuroscience...developing means of regeneration of nerve tissue.

 

[waltky]

No. 1 cause of cancer deaths isn't as lethal as doctors once thought...

Study says many lung cancer tumors prove harmless
9 Dec.`13 — Harmless lung cancer? A provocative study found that nearly 1 in 5 lung tumors detected on CT scans are probably so slow-growing that they would never cause problems. The analysis suggests the world's No. 1 cause of cancer deaths isn't as lethal as doctors once thought.

In the study, these were not false-positives — suspicious results that turn out upon further testing not to be cancer. These were indeed cancerous tumors, but ones that caused no symptoms and were unlikely ever to become deadly, the researchers said. Still, the results are not likely to change how doctors treat lung cancer. For one thing, the disease is usually diagnosed after symptoms develop, when tumors show up on an ordinary chest X-ray and are potentially life-threatening. Also, doctors don't know yet how to determine which symptomless tumors found on CT scans might become dangerous, so they automatically treat the cancer aggressively. The findings underscore the need to identify biological markers that would help doctors determine which tumors are harmless and which ones require treatment, said Dr. Edward Patz, Jr., lead author and a radiologist at Duke University Medical Center. He is among researchers working to do just that. Patz said patients who seek lung cancer screening should be told about the study results. "People have to understand that we're going to find some cancers which if we'd never looked, we never would have had to treat," he said. Among patients and even many doctors, "it's not something that is commonly known with lung cancer."

A leader of an influential government-appointed health panel agreed. "Putting the word 'harmless' next to cancer is such a foreign concept to people," said Dr. Michael LeFevre, co-chairman of the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force. The panel recently issued a draft proposal recommending annual CT scans for high-risk current and former heavy smokers — echoing advice from the American Cancer Society. A final recommendation is pending, but LeFevre said the panel had already assumed that screening might lead to overdiagnosis. "The more we bring public awareness of this, then the more informed decisions might be when people decide to screen or not," LeFevre said. He called the study "a very important contribution," but said doctors will face a challenge in trying to explain the results to patients. In testimonials, patients often say lung cancer screening via CT scans cured them, but the study suggests that in many cases, "we cured them of a disease we didn't need to find in the first place," LeFevre said.

The study was published Monday in the journal JAMA Internal Medicine. More than 200,000 Americans are diagnosed with lung cancer each year, and more than half of them die. Worldwide, there are about 1.5 million lung cancer deaths annually. The new study is an analysis of data from the National Lung Cancer Screening Trial — National Cancer Institute research involving 53,452 people at high risk for lung cancer who were followed for about six years. Half of them got three annual low-dose CT scans — a type of X-ray that is much more sensitive than the ordinary variety — and half got three annual conventional chest X-rays. During six years of follow-up, 1,089 lung cancers were diagnosed in CT scan patients, versus 969 in those who got chest X-rays. That would suggest CT scans are finding many early cases of lung cancer that may never advance to the point where they could be spotted on an ordinary chest X-ray. An earlier report on the study found that 320 patients would need to get CT screening to prevent one lung cancer death.

The new analysis suggests that for every 10 lives saved by CT lung cancer screening, almost 14 people will have been diagnosed with a lung cancer that would never have caused any harm, said Dr. Len Lichtenfeld, the cancer society's deputy chief medical officer. He said that is a higher rate of overdiagnosis than he would have predicted, but that the study shows how much understanding of cancer has evolved. Decades ago, "every cancer was a bad cancer," he said. Now it's known that certain cancers, including many prostate cancers, grow so slowly that they never need treatment. The American College of Radiology said in statement Monday that the earlier study showed lung cancer screening significantly reduces lung cancer deaths in high-risk patients and that the benefit "significantly outweighs the comparatively modest rate of overdiagnosis" found in the new analysis. Low-dose CT scans are the only test shown to reduce lung cancer deaths in high-risk smokers, the radiology group said, adding, "Overdiagnosis is an expected part of any screening program and does not alter these facts."

Study says many lung cancer tumors prove harmless

 

[Indeependent]

Are lot of types of cancer are also getting easier to cure thanks to research and technology.

 

[Alfalfa]

Congratulations and kudos to the israeli firm, Deep Breeze.

 

[Alfalfa]

Weird, I've done several searches on this tech and the company who invented it, Deep Breeze, and nothing comes up.

A little help?

 

[Bloodrock44]

http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=...hIDABQ&usg=AFQjCNH0UTVs0cW-aCboocx1wjkbfHapPw

 

[Sweet_Caroline]

Weird, I've done several searches on this tech and the company who invented it, Deep Breeze, and nothing comes up.

A little help?

Deep Breeze Ltd.: Private Company Information - Businessweek

 

[Alfalfa]

Well, I know the company exists, I was more interested in this medical breakthrough. There doesn't seem to be much info on it outside the mention in one or two israeli publications.

 

[Sally]

Weird, I've done several searches on this tech and the company who invented it, Deep Breeze, and nothing comes up.

A little help?

Deep Breeze Ltd.: Private Company Information - Businessweek

It is amazing what the Israelis are coming up with these days. It's difficult to keep apprised of everything. All these medical and other innovations will certainly help many people on this planet.

Israel?s virus-killer Vecoy gets an outer-space research prize | ISRAEL21c

?An ICU with a playground in the middle? | ISRAEL21c

New insights could keep allergy and autoimmune cells out of the bloodstream | ISRAEL21c

 

[Alfalfa]

Weird, I've done several searches on this tech and the company who invented it, Deep Breeze, and nothing comes up.

A little help?

Deep Breeze Ltd.: Private Company Information - Businessweek

It is amazing what the Israelis are coming up with these days. It's difficult to keep apprised of everything. All these medical and other innovations will certainly help many people on this planet.

Israel?s virus-killer Vecoy gets an outer-space research prize | ISRAEL21c

?An ICU with a playground in the middle? | ISRAEL21c

New insights could keep allergy and autoimmune cells out of the bloodstream | ISRAEL21c

Any of them actually in market?

 

[Indeependent]

Deep Breeze Ltd.: Private Company Information - Businessweek

It is amazing what the Israelis are coming up with these days. It's difficult to keep apprised of everything. All these medical and other innovations will certainly help many people on this planet.

Israel?s virus-killer Vecoy gets an outer-space research prize | ISRAEL21c

?An ICU with a playground in the middle? | ISRAEL21c

New insights could keep allergy and autoimmune cells out of the bloodstream | ISRAEL21c

Any of them actually in market?

USB ring a bell?
Most of the Israeli inventions wind up being key modular components in various devices in various industries.
The same goes for Germany, Japan, France and most of the civilized world.
Teva creates lots of new medications.

Not bad for a nation that has to dedicate most of it's nation's money and energy to defending itself from 1.2 billion wanna-be murderers.

 

[Sally]

It is amazing what the Israelis are coming up with these days. It's difficult to keep apprised of everything. All these medical and other innovations will certainly help many people on this planet.

Israel?s virus-killer Vecoy gets an outer-space research prize | ISRAEL21c

?An ICU with a playground in the middle? | ISRAEL21c

New insights could keep allergy and autoimmune cells out of the bloodstream | ISRAEL21c

Any of them actually in market?

USB ring a bell?
Most of the Israeli inventions wind up being key modular components in various devices in various industries.
The same goes for Germany, Japan, France and most of the civilized world.
Teva creates lots of new medications.

Not bad for a nation that has to dedicate most of it's nation's money and energy to defending itself from 1.2 billion wanna-be murderers.

I certainly hope that the anti-Semites never avail themselves of anything that was thought up in Israel. After all, that would be hypocritical on their part.

 

[Alfalfa]

It is amazing what the Israelis are coming up with these days. It's difficult to keep apprised of everything. All these medical and other innovations will certainly help many people on this planet.

Israel?s virus-killer Vecoy gets an outer-space research prize | ISRAEL21c

?An ICU with a playground in the middle? | ISRAEL21c

New insights could keep allergy and autoimmune cells out of the bloodstream | ISRAEL21c

Any of them actually in market?

USB ring a bell?
Most of the Israeli inventions wind up being key modular components in various devices in various industries.
The same goes for Germany, Japan, France and most of the civilized world.
Teva creates lots of new medications.

Not bad for a nation that has to dedicate most of it's nation's money and energy to defending itself from 1.2 billion wanna-be murderers.

The % of GDP isreal spends on defense (less charity) is less then the US.

 

[Alfalfa]

Any of them actually in market?

USB ring a bell?
Most of the Israeli inventions wind up being key modular components in various devices in various industries.
The same goes for Germany, Japan, France and most of the civilized world.
Teva creates lots of new medications.

Not bad for a nation that has to dedicate most of it's nation's money and energy to defending itself from 1.2 billion wanna-be murderers.

I certainly hope that the anti-Semites never avail themselves of anything that was thought up in Israel. After all, that would be hypocritical on their part.

Oh STFU. The arrogance of the israeli lobby is starting to wear thin.

When charity case israel start returning the 3-5 billion a year the american tax payer lards on them, let me know. Until then your just a beggar.

 

[Sweet_Caroline]

This is mind-blowing.

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[Lipush]

Much success to our doctors.