SNIFFPHONE Smartphone Attachment Detects Cancer on the Breath

Feb-06-15 The SNIFFPHONE smartphone attachment can detect lung cancer with 90 percent accuracy by analyzing the biomarkers in a person's breath.

The device, in development since 2006, will be portable version of Professor Hossam Haick's NaNose, the current commercialized disease-detecting breathalyzer. Micro- and nano-sensors within the device detect the chemicals in a person's breath that indicate a tumor. The data is then sent via the smartphone to an information center for analysis. The consortium, headed by Professor Hossam Haick, has received a grant from the European Commission to continue the project.

The most immediate application of the SNIFFNOSE would be in poor or rural areas where diagnostic equipment is not readily available.

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