Simona Francese

Let's be honest, I personally would choose my life over my modesty, but this is not exactly an exam, a test that preserves your modesty, right?

And for some populations, this is absolutely culturally unacceptable.

It is invasive.

there is a fear associated with radiation, and for many women, it's actually so painful that they refuse to go.

There was a recent survey of 2,000 women, and a standard of 21 percent said that the embarrassment of being topless and the fear of pain would actually prevent them from undertaking screening.

At least women know that it's so important to take up the screening, but this still happens.

So, but what if I told you that my team and I are on probably a game-changing test that looks exactly like a test that will bypass NHS backlogs, that doesn't need any more resources from the NHS, that actually preserves your modesty because it's completely non-invasive.

There is no radiation and pain associated with it.

And what if I told you that this comes from the world of fingerprints?

CSI and fingerprints, right?

An invisible world like that of a fingerprint.

We all know what fingerprints are for, right?

So they're used to identify a suspect by comparing the mark that they left at the crime scene with the fingerprint that has been taken upon arrest or from prior convictions, right?

So you might tell me, okay, what's got this to do with breast cancer?

So bear with me, because I need you to rethink what a fingerprint is.

So this is a close-up of a fingertip, right?

And the elevated part of the skin are the ridges, and then you see these little holes there.

Those are the sweat pores from which the sweat comes through.

And as you're sweating, as soon as you touch a surface, you transfer that sweat

onto the surface.