Melbourne - Medianet International-AsiaNet/ - American Star Wars technology developed to shoot down nuclear missiles could be used to save the lives of thousands of women with breast cancer, surgeons in Hong Kong will be told today.
American Colonel Craig Shriver will tell surgeons at the co-joint Annual Scientific Congress of the College of Surgeons of Australasia and Hong Kong, that a chance conversation at a cocktail party lead to the discovery.
"I made the notes on a cocktail napkin while I was chatting to the Chief of the Army Space and Missile Defense Command, we discussed how defence technology could be used to fight breast cancer.
"In a missile strike there may be lots of dummy warheads to confuse star wars defence, what the technology does is to identify which missiles have the nuclear warhead. The same idea can be used to find the single cancer cell among the millions of normal ones.
"It is very exciting because we found that the technology which is basically an unclassified software algorithm is very accurate and it is a neat example of how defence technology can be turned towards another use that could help millions of people.
Colonel Craig Shriver is the Chief, Department of General Surgery at the Walter Reed Army Medical Centre, Washington DC and as a leader in breast cancer care will update surgeons on some of the latest developments in breast cancer care.
"When a woman has breast cancer generally she either has a lumpectomy to remove the cancerous tissue or if the cancer has spread throughout the breast, she may have to have the entire breast removed.
"This technique uses the unclassified defence software which can track the trajectory of missiles, to be used to better identify cancerous tumour cells on mammogram imaging, potentially tailoring the surgical approach and lessening the need for more disfiguring surgery.
The research, which is being funded by the Department of Defense, is now in the middle stage and undergoing further refinements in the software algorithm for better breast cancer detection and analysis.
The Congress will run from Tuesday 12 May until Friday 16 May, at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre.
Journalists are welcome to attend for more information please call Fiona Gillies RACS Media & PR Manager on +61 407 339 556 or fiona.gillies@surgeons.org
SOURCE: Royal Australasian College of Surgeons
American Colonel Craig Shriver will tell surgeons at the co-joint Annual Scientific Congress of the College of Surgeons of Australasia and Hong Kong, that a chance conversation at a cocktail party lead to the discovery.
"I made the notes on a cocktail napkin while I was chatting to the Chief of the Army Space and Missile Defense Command, we discussed how defence technology could be used to fight breast cancer.
"In a missile strike there may be lots of dummy warheads to confuse star wars defence, what the technology does is to identify which missiles have the nuclear warhead. The same idea can be used to find the single cancer cell among the millions of normal ones.
"It is very exciting because we found that the technology which is basically an unclassified software algorithm is very accurate and it is a neat example of how defence technology can be turned towards another use that could help millions of people.
Colonel Craig Shriver is the Chief, Department of General Surgery at the Walter Reed Army Medical Centre, Washington DC and as a leader in breast cancer care will update surgeons on some of the latest developments in breast cancer care.
"When a woman has breast cancer generally she either has a lumpectomy to remove the cancerous tissue or if the cancer has spread throughout the breast, she may have to have the entire breast removed.
"This technique uses the unclassified defence software which can track the trajectory of missiles, to be used to better identify cancerous tumour cells on mammogram imaging, potentially tailoring the surgical approach and lessening the need for more disfiguring surgery.
The research, which is being funded by the Department of Defense, is now in the middle stage and undergoing further refinements in the software algorithm for better breast cancer detection and analysis.
The Congress will run from Tuesday 12 May until Friday 16 May, at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre.
Journalists are welcome to attend for more information please call Fiona Gillies RACS Media & PR Manager on +61 407 339 556 or fiona.gillies@surgeons.org
SOURCE: Royal Australasian College of Surgeons
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