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The Use of Skin Surface Electropotentials for Breast Cancer Detection—Preliminary Clinical Trial Results Obtained Using the Biofield Diagnostic System

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The purpose of this study is to evaluate the efficiency of the Biofield Diagnostic System (BDS) as an adjunct to established diagnostic techniques such as mammography and ultrasound in differentiating benign and malignant breast lesions. The clinical trial was conducted at the Tan Tock Seng hospital, Singapore. 103 women scheduled for mammography and/or ultrasound tests participated in the study. The BDS test recorded a sensitivity of 100%, specificity of 97.6%, and an accuracy of 98.1%. The area under the ROC curve was 0.988 which was slightly lower than that of ultrasound (0.994) and slightly higher than that of mammography (0.951). The BDS test has demonstrated high sensitivity and specificity values in the studied population. The accuracy is also comparable to that of diagnostic techniques like mammography and ultrasound. Thus, it is evident that BDS can be a fast and reliable adjunct tool for getting a secondary opinion on lesions with indeterminate mammographic and sonographic results.

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Vinitha Sree, S., Ng, E.Y.K., Kaw, G. et al. The Use of Skin Surface Electropotentials for Breast Cancer Detection—Preliminary Clinical Trial Results Obtained Using the Biofield Diagnostic System. J Med Syst 35, 79–86 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10916-009-9343-0

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