Breast Cancer Screening – With Tear Content Analysis
An exciting new technology is now available for at home breast cancer screening which uses the content from tears!
And as everyone knows breast cancer is a big concern, and the numbers support this concern:
♦️ The current incidence of breast cancer in the general U.S. population is as follows:
♦️ For 2025, an estimated 316,950 women will be diagnosed with invasive breast cancer, along with about 59,080 new cases of non-invasive (in situ) breast cancer.
♦️ The age-adjusted incidence rate is approximately 130.8 per 100,000 women per year.
♦️ Breast cancer represents about 15.5% of all new cancer cases in the U.S.About 1 in 8 women (13%) in the U.S. will develop breast cancer at some point in their life.
♦️ Note: Less than 1% of cases occur in men, with about 2,800 men expected to be diagnosed in 2025.
The screening test is available from Auria – auria.care
From the company’s website: “Tears make it clear.Large components in blood can mask small cancer markers. These components are not present in tears, making small protein biomarkers associated with cancer much easier to spot.
Auria has a sensitivity of 92%This means out of 100 women with breast cancer, Auria would classify 92 of those women as medium or high.
We have preferentially selected our algorithm to have a higher sensitivity in order to reduce the number of missed cancers.”
The company has also purposely made the screening test inexpensive ($199.00) so that it is accessible for the general population,
To review the company’s white paper and peer-reviewed papers here is the link:
From my perspective, here are two key considerations:
♦️ This screening technology can potentially avoid radiation exposure and it has the potential to pick up warning signs much earlier vs. mammography (not to insinuate that it replaces mammography)
♦️ As an early detection technology, it allows practitioners in the functional space to work with patients to change their lifestyle and overall health which will lead to a shift in their internal terrain making it less hospitable to cancer growth!
I am pretty excited about this new technology!
What are your thoughts?