New Hand-Held Skin Cancer Detector

Balter Medical of Norway has developed a hand-held device that detects skin cancer. The device uses a technique called Optical Transfer Diagnosis that measures the difference of light waves being absorbed by blood vessels and suspicious moles.

The device is said to be very accurate as it correctly diagnosed 11 out of 11 malignant melanomas in a clinical study. It won’t be available for 2 years, however, as it is still in the process of development.