Happens in Japan, cancer is discovered by urinary analysis

The engineering company Hitachi has been working on this technology for two years, with the analysis of 250 urine samples for breast disease, intestines and childhood at Nagoya University in Japan.

Company spokesman Chiharu Odaira says: If this approach is done, it will be quite easy for people to do cancer analysis, and there is no need to go to labs for blood tests”.

He adds that young children in particular will benefit from diagnostic methods, which may be valuable by 2020 and thus avoid fear of syringes.

Technology works with revealing remains in the urine sample that act as “biomarking” for disease forms, according to a Hitachy statement.

It aims to detect cancer as early as possible, and to save lives, to reduce the medical and social costs of treatment, Odaira says.

Experiments that assess the accuracy of the method can begin later in the month and end in September.