Diagnosing Cancer without Biopsy.

The scientists said that the approach can also be employed one day to diagnose the damaged hearts quickly and to guide the treatment of the cancer of prostate.

The technique was cleared a way during the Nineties at the university of the medical school from Texas in Houston by Jonathan Ophir and his colleagues. Ophir describes the elastography like manner of measuring and of describing the elasticity of fabric of body.

Indeed, it is a prolongation of one of the oldest tools in medicine, the palpation, in which a doctor feels the shape and the firmness of fabric of body.