Simona Francese

we had a mammogram versus a swipe of the fingertip.

And also then at that point, we thought, well, then can we further the optimization of this method?

Can we refine it to maybe produce a non-invasive screening of breast cancer?

and maybe even just as a pre-screening, so then only women that are positive to this very simple test go through mammograms.

And that is going to save a lot of emotional distress to women and to family, as well as saving the NHS a lot of resources.

So CARS organization then have actually estimated a cost of 17.5 billion pounds associated to breast cancer interventions, treatment and screening.

It's a lot.

We can reduce the distress to families, to communities, and we can also reduce this cost.

So it took me the best part of six years, because I was labeled crazy, the best part of six years to obtain £45,000.

to prove the concept.

And we did prove the concept.

So with that 45,000 pounds, I also hijacked some of the fundings that I had.

But anyway, with those 45,000 pounds, we were able to look at 15 women.

They gave us three different fingerprint smears.

We then analyzed the smears in three different locations.

So we had 135 samples to look at.

Simply, they came and did actually this three times.

One, two, three.

That's my sample.

I know it sounds crazy.