An international research team has developed a new device which utilises LEDs to help diagnose oral cancer more efficiently than ever.
The University of Sheffield and Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust are leading research into a system which allows accurate diagnosis of cancers to be produced in between ten and 20 minutes.
It functions by feeding mouth cell samples through a device which exposes them to biomarkers and then lights them up using LEDs.
The way each cell glows when the LEDs are shone upon them will allow clinicians to determine which are healthy and which are diseased.
Professor Martin Thornhill, the research leader, said: This new affordable technology will significantly increase our ability to detect oral cancer in the future.
Last month, Research in China predicted that demand for LEDs is to continue to skyrocket in the coming years due to their long life and energy-saving benefits.
